Assemblyman Gerry Scharfenberger, PhD, (R-Monmouth) is forgoing his legislative salary until the unemployment insurance claims of his LD-13 constituents are fulfilled.
A small Monmouth County nursing home has seen 50 residents test positive for coronavirus, all while having its employee ranks thinned by 30 percent due to sick or quarantined staff.
The number of sick may be dozens fewer than at some larger nursing homesaround the state, but at Manor Health and Rehabilitation Center in Freehold, it represents the vast majority of its 63 residents. The facility had 49 residents test positive but also admitted another new resident who was positive, as required by the state, according to a spokeswoman.
Governors Phil Murphy of New Jersey, Andrew Cuomo of New York and Ned Lamont of Connecticut announced that marinas, boatyards and marine manufacturers will be allowed open in their States for personal use as long as strict social distancing and sanitization protocols are followed.
In an uncharacteristic rant to conclude his daily COVID-19 briefing on Saturday, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy invoked a scene from the 1969 classic film, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, while imploring Garden State residents to trust him like the characters played by Paul Newman and Robert Redford trusted each other when they jumped off a cliff rather than get gunned downed by authorities who were hunting down the outlaws.
Monmouth County has 4,414 positive cases of COVID-19 as and 206 deaths due to the virus, as of April 17, 2020, according to County officials and the NJ Department of Health.
Robert Webber, a member of the Middletown First Aid Squad,the Port Monmouth Fire Company and the Middletown Fire Department’s Air Unit is among the departed.
New Jersey has now seen at least 78,467 confirmed coronaviruscases and 3,840 deaths related to COVID-19, with state officials Friday announcing 3,250 new positive tests and 323 new fatalities in the last 24 hours.
Gov. Phil Murphy revealed the latest numbers during his daily coronavirus press briefing in Trenton.
As of 10 p.m. Thursday, 11,011 Garden State residents with the virus or under investigation for it remained hospitalized, Murphy said. Of those, 1,961 were in critical care and 1,594 on ventilators.
Between 10 p.m. Wednesday and 10 p.m. Thursday, 787 residents with he virus or under inve… Read the rest of this entry »
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State Troopers Fraternal Association 1st Vice President Steve Kuhn, on left, and STFA President Wayne Blanchard, on right, receive PPE donated by the Ansell office in Iselin, NJ at the STFA office in Wall Township on Tues., April 14, 2020.
The New Jersey State Troopers union and the Health Care Professionals and Allied Employees (HPAE; representing registered nurses and other health care workers) received thousands of donated gloves and suits at their PPE donation site in Manasquan this week, thanks to the efforts of Congressman Chris Smith.
President Donald Trump’s new guidelines for reopening states as the coronavirus pandemic recedes leaves the decision to lift restrictions solely up to the governors, and Phil Murphy says he’s in no rush to do so in New Jersey.
Trump outlined the federal guidance Wednesday during a conference call with governors and then at his daily White House coronavirus press conference later that day.
“The curve has flattened and the peak in new cases is behind us,” Trump said. “We’re opening up our country. America wants to be open, and Americans want to be open. A national shutdown is not a sustainable longte… Read the rest of this entry »
New Jersey schools will be closed through at least May 15 because of the coronavirus pandemic, with the state’s 1.4 million students continuing to learn from home, Gov. Phil Murphy announced Thursday.
Murphy initially ordered all schools in the Garden State— public and private, including pre-K and college — to close March 18 for at least two weeks. He later extended that closure to April 17, saying he would not reopen schools until medical experts tell him it’s safe.
Now, his unprecedented order will last at least four more weeks.“Let me be perfectly clear: There is nobody who wants to open the sc… Read the rest of this entry »
In a rare, often combative interview Wednesday night with Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Gov. Phil Murphy defended his decision to put New Jersey in a near-lockdown to fight the coronavirus pandemic, saying more than 3 million residents — a third of the state’s population — would have been infected if he didn’t.
And in a notable exchange, Carlson pressed Murphy, a progressive Democrat, on why the state is temporarily banning religious gatherings like funerals while liquor stores are allowed to stay open. The host argued that violates Americans’ right to “practice religion as they see fit” under the… Read the rest of this entry »
