Gov. Phil Murphy announced New Jersey is entering Phase 2 of its Road Back plan featuring the opening of outdoor dining, hair salons, indoor retail, gyms and health clubs.

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Gov. Phil Murphy announced New Jersey is entering Phase 2 of its Road Back plan featuring the opening of outdoor dining, hair salons, indoor retail, gyms and health clubs.
The state’s COVID-19 testing capacity has reached a key milestone in Gov. Phil Murphy’s Road Back plan to reopen New Jersey.
The state’s COVID-19 testing capacity has reached a key milestone in reopening New Jersey, Gov. Phil Murphy stated at his daily briefing May 27.
North Jersey shops are hoping the ability to offer curbside pick-up service will give them a boost following extended closures due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Authorized licensed New Jersey pharmacists were granted the ability to administer COVID-19 tests to customers, enabling pharmacies statewide to serve as testing sites.
Authorized licensed New Jersey pharmacists were granted the ability to administer COVID-19 tests to customers, enabling pharmacies statewide to serve as testing sites.
State officials rolled out the framework for expanded testing and contact tracing for COVID-19, two key initiatives cited by Gov. Phil Murphy to reopen New Jersey.
Gov. Phil Murphy at his daily briefing May 11 foreshadowed there could be some loosening of restriction due to the coronavirus pandemic in the near future.
Convalescent plasma collection will begin at the American Red Cross blood center in Fairfield and University Hospital in Newark.
As New Jersey begins to set the stage for expanded coronavirus testing, the first death of a child in New Jersey was announced May 8 by New Jersey Department of Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli.
Calls are growing louder to restart New Jersey’s economy as several North Jersey legislators have proposed measures to help the Garden State get back to work now.
New Jersey hospitals will receive $1.7 billion from the federal government as part of The CARES Act. The money being distributed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is directed to the 395 hospitals hardest hit nationally by COVID-19. Of those, 53 in New Jersey qualified, the second-largest amount of funding awarded only behind New York.
“So far so good” were the early reports Gov. Phil Murphy received on the first day parks and golf courses reopened May 2.
Compared to the rest of the country, New Jersey residents are more concerned about the COVID-19 crisis, know more people infected with the virus and are feeling more stressed out than people from other parts of the nation, a new poll found.