Zero N.J. Deaths, WHO Warns of Delta’s Surge: Virus Update

New Jersey had zero in-hospital coronavirus deaths Thursday for the first time since July, Governor Phil Murphy said on Twitter. Meanwhile, New York City will finish the school year with the lowest infection rate since the pandemic began.

U.S. health officials paused distribution of Eli Lilly & Co.’s combination antibody therapy because of fears it won’t combat two increasingly common coronavirus variants. The head of the World Health Organization warned that the delta variant first detected in India is “the most transmissible of the variants identified so far” and has spread in at least 85 countries, the Associated Press reported.