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Murphy orders closing of child care centers — except those servicing children of essential personnel

  • March 25, 2020
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Child care centers in New Jersey will only be allowed to remain open if they certified that they will be used exclusively for the children of essential workers, especially health care workers and first responders, Gov. Phil Murphy announced Wednesday.

Caring for the children of the workers who are on the front line of the crisis is among the highest priorities, Murphy said.

Murphy, speaking at his daily coronavirus briefing — which is still going — offered other updates, including:

FEMA field hospitals

The hospital at the Meadowlands Convention Center will be the first of four FEMA-assisted field hospitals to open. The state hopes it will be able to add 250 additional beds.

The FEMA field hospital at the Garden State Convention Center in Edison will come next, followed by one at the Atlantic City Convention Center. A fourth hospital, at a yet to be determined site, also will open.

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Gov. Phil Murphy at a daily coronavirus briefing.

The sites are expected to bring 1,000 more beds combined.

Murphy said the state currently has 18,443 acute care beds, including 2,000 critical care beds. Murphy said to goal is to increase capacity by 2,360 over the next few weeks.

In addition to the field hospitals, Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli said an additional 800 beds will come on line at existing hospitals as they find more rooms available by opening closed wings, among other ways.

Federal help

Murphy announced the federal government’s Health and Human Services Department is giving a grant of $1.9 million to 24 health care facilities in the state to help them deal with COVID-19 costs.

Murphy said he also is hopeful a multitrillion-dollar stimulus bill provides additional funds to help the government and businesses.

New cases and fatalities

Murphy reports there are 736 new cases of coronavirus in the state, bringing the New Jersey total to 4,402.

Bergen County has the most new cases, at 89, for a state-leading total of 891. Bergen is followed by Essex (381), Middlesex (316), Monmouth (313), Union (262) and Hudson (260) counties.

In addition, there were 18 more fatalities, bringing that total to 62. The latest fatalities come from the following counties: Ocean (4), Essex (3), Monmouth (2) and Bergen, Burlington, Cumberland, Hudson, Middlesex, Morris, Passaic, Somerset and Union.

Negative tests results

Health officials said they have results from approximately 14,000 tests. Of those, 4,402 cases have been positive, meaning 29% of tests are positive.

The state epidemiologist, Christina Tan, noted that those who did not test positive are not out of the woods. They could acquire coronavirus later — and their symptoms could indicate they have other respiratory issues, such as the flu.

New test centers

Murphy said Essex County will open a facility Thursday. It will be by appointment and for county residents only. Go to www.Essexcovid.org for more information.

Donations

Murphy thanked Wakefern, which oversees the ShopRite grocery store collective, for donating trailers to store mobile field hospital equipment.

Murphy also said Merck CEO Ken Frazier announced his company will be contributing 300,000 masks to the cause and that Richard Tolson, the director of the Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers Administrative District Council of New Jersey, is leading a donation of equipment to Burlington County health care workers.

Murphy said the state’s donation email line, ppedonations@njsp.org, has received more than 550 emails from those looking to help.

Law and order

Murphy announced there were two summonses given out in Lakewood for crowds; one was for an in-house wedding. He also said a man in New Providence was given additional charges when he said he had coronavirus and attempted to cough on health care workers and the police at the scene of an arrest.

Final word

Murphy said the state is serious about enforcing the stay-at-home order.

“We mean business,” he said. “We take no joy to say there are ‘no gatherings.’”

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