Beaches in a number of East Coast states were closed off to the public after medical waste including needles washed ashore. While beaches remain closed in Maryland and Virginia, swimming bans have been lifted Delaware.

State and local officials at oceanfront beaches from Delaware to Virginia that closed due to medical waste washing ashore are hopeful that they could reopen to the public “in the next few days.”

Maryland State Parks announce Assateague State Park and other beaches are restricting ocean access after medical waste is found washing ashore.

Lewes beaches are now closed to swimmers, as are beaches in Rehoboth, Dewey, Bethany, South Bethany and Fenwick Island. In Maryland, Ocean City and Assateague State Park have closed to swimmers, as has Assateague Island National Seashore in Maryland and Virginia.

Beaches in Delaware, Maryland and Virginia announced they were closed to swimmers Sunday due to medical waste that washed ashore.

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Officials in New Jersey say there have been no reports of used hypodermic needles or other garbage washing up on local beaches after incidents in Delaware and Maryland over the weekend. Rangers at Assateague State Park in Maryland discovered the garbage,

The Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control has issued a one-week recreational water advisory for nearly all Atlantic Ocean beaches in Delaware, two days after medical waste started washing ashore.

Officials warned people to stay out of the ocean at several beaches in Maryland, Delaware and Virginia after they said medical waste washed ashore.