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Monmouth County has 1743 positive COVID-19 cases, 43 deaths, as of April 3, 2020

Monmouth County has 1743 positive cases of COVID-19 as of April 3, according to an announcement by Freeholder Director Tom Arnone and Deputy Director Sue Kiley.

The NJ Department of Health reports that there have been 43 deaths resulting from the virus in Monmouth County.

A town by town breakdown of cases is listed below:

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How to prevent your ZOOM meeting from being hacked

There are numerous published reports of ZoomBombing – unauthorized hackers joining a meeting and wrecking havoc with porn, racist rants and the like.

Zoom’s CEO, Eric S. Yuan, acknowledged the problem in an April 1 message to the site’s users.

Yuan explained that his platform, which was designed to be used by enterprise customers like large financial institutions with full IT support and was not designed with the foresight that “in a matter of weeks, every person in the world would suddenly be working, studying, and socializing from home.”

Zoom usage has grown from 10 million people in December to over 200 million in March, according to a NPR report.

Zoom published a detailed guide, How to Keep Uninvited Guests Out of Your Zoom Event on March 20.

An article in Fortune published on April 2, summarized the guide as follows:

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Congressman Smith announces emergency CARE Act funds for CD-4 towns

Congressman Chris Smith at work in his Freehold District Office.

Local governments in the 4th Congressional District of New Jersey were awarded $4.5 million in federal CARE Act funds to help areas stabilize and recover from the economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) announced.

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NJ Goes All Out to Prepare for COVID-19 Surge That’s About to Hit

In something resembling a military operation, the state is on high alert, scrambling to add critical-care beds and ready pop-up field hospitals

By Lilo H. Stainton, NJ Spotlight

After weeks of planning and preparations, New Jersey is now ready to activate its hospital-capacity contingency plans, as facilities in the northern counties are becoming increasingly overwhelmed by a surge of patients with COVID-19.

State officials are preparing to shift patients with more limited clinical needs from existing hospitals to the new “field medical station” set up by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the Meadowlands in order to make room for individuals who need critical care; the field station, in Secaucus, is expected to start accepting patients Monday. Newark’s University Hospital, the region’s Level 1 trauma center, will oversee the field station and transport the patients by ambulance or air, if needed.

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Tune into the Jersey Gs at 4

Art Gallagher in the TommyG Show studio

MMM publisher Art Gallagher will be Tommy G’s guest on this afternoon, 4:05 PM, on the best afternoon drive time radio show in New Jersey.

You shouldn’t be out driving, so tune in from your computer or smartphone, please.

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NJTV Video: Stay at home order poses special problems for victims of abuse

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Town by Town: Monmouth County has 1,307 positive COVID-19 cases

As of April 1, 2020, 1,307 Monmouth County residents have tested positive for COVID-19, according to an announcement by Freeholder Director Tom Arnone and Deputy Director Sue Kiley.

The breakdown by municipality is as follows:

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Asbury Park suspends short term rentals

Asbury Park has suspended short term rentals within the City limits effective April 1, 2020 until further notice, according to an announcement by Mayor John Moor and Deputy Mayor Amy Quinn.

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NJ COVID-19 Numbers: 22,255 cases, 355 deaths

22,255 New Jersey residents have come down with COVID-19 and 355 have succumbed to the virus, Governor Phil Murphy announced this afternoon.

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COVID-19 News from Senator Declan O’Scanlon

Senator Declan O’Scanlon

As New Jersey continues under a state of emergency due to the coronavirus, please know that my district office remains available to serve constituents by phone and email. Included below are links to information that you may find helpful, along with important state and national news updates related to COVID-19.

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