New Jersey on Thursday reported seven new COVID-19 deaths across the state and 2,369 new confirmed positive tests — 700 more than the number from one day earlier. The states’s seven-day average for confirmed cases was 1,654 Thursday, up 3% from a week ago, and up 139% from a month ago. There were 425 patients with confirmed or suspected coronavirus cases across 70 of the state’s 71 hospitals as of Wednesday night. One hospital did not report data. Hospitalizations hit a recent peak at 6,089 on Jan. 10 during the omicron wave that spread across the state this winter. There were at least 75 peop…