New Jersey reported five more coronavirus deaths and 378 more positive tests Sunday as the state’s rate of transmission decreased for the seventh straight day — though it remained just above the key benchmark that indicates the outbreak is expanding.

The Garden State’s death toll now stands at 15,874, with 14,021 confirmed and 1,853 probable fatalities from COVID-19, according to the latest numbers reported by Gov.

The state has reported 184,773 known coronavirus cases in the slightly more than five months since its first positive test was announced March 4.

The state did not specify when the newly reported deaths Sunday occurred.

#COVID19 UPDATE: New Jersey has 378 new positive cases of COVID-19, pushing our cumulative total to 184,773.

The number of daily deaths and cases in New Jersey — an early coronavirus hotspot — remain well below their peaks in April, when it was routine for the state to announce hundreds of new fatalities and thousands of new positive tests a day.

The state’s most recent rate of transmission — a critical metric the state is using to determine how to further lift coronavirus restrictions — is 1.03, down from 1.15 reported on Friday and from a four-month high of 1.49 reported a week ago.

New Jersey, a densely populated state of 9 million residents, ranks second among U.S.

The total number of coronavirus cases in the state is cumulative and does not reflect the thousands of residents who have recovered.

There have now been more than 2.3 million COVID-19 tests administered in the state.

As of early Sunday afternoon, there have been more than 19.6 million positive tests for COVID-19 across the world, according to a running tally by Johns Hopkins University.