New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy announced on Saturday morning that he signed an executive order extending the state’s public health emergency for another 30 days — the announcement came as he said the state was reporting the highest daily number of new positive COVID-19 cases since May.
About 30 minutes before announcing the extension of the public health emergency, Murphy tweeted out the ominous numbers: “URGENT UPDATE: We’re reporting 1,994 new positive cases of #COVID19, pushing our cumulative total to 227,339,” “We haven’t seen daily case numbers this high since May. We’re still in the midst of a pandemic and need everyone to take this seriously.”
(AP)
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I hope he follows coumo and institutes lockdown, thereby helping save our loved ones lives.
How many people are being tested daily? That is probably ALSO at an all-time high since May (especially considering just the effort among the Lakewood, Jackson, Tom’s River residents to test, test, and test.
If we stop testing the rates will go down. If you have symptoms, treat them. There are many options out there.
Just for the record, it’s not about Lakewood.
(Source: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/new-jersey/ )
County New Cases New Deaths
Essex +356 +1
Union +197 +1
Hudson +174 +4
Middlesex +163
Bergen +149
Burlington +123 +1
Passaic +98
Ocean +75 +1
Even though Murphy isn’t putting Lakewood on the spotlight, the extra testing could affect us.