COVID-19: 17 more Montclairites test positive; virus claims two more lives
Edwin J. Torres for Governor's Office
Past JAIMIE JULIA WINTERS
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Seventeen more Montclair residents have tested positive for COVID-19, and two more residents take in died as a result of the virus, township health department officials said Wednesday, March 25.
Comprehensive totals continuing to move up as testing for COVID-19 expands. The number of optimistic cases in New Jersey rose to 4,402, up from 3,675 along Tues.The every day increase Wednesday was smaller (727 cases) than Tues's (846 cases).
But the turn of deaths sets a dire picture, ascension from the total 44 rumored on Tuesday, to 62 now. The 18 new deaths related to COVID-19 is the largest one-day gain in fatalities. Three of those deaths were unconscious of Essex County, two of those from Montclair.
In Montclair, 38 residents so far have tested positive, resultant in vi deaths in totality.
State Wellness Commissioner Judith M. Persichilli said of the 62 deaths up to now, ages range from 30 to 93 long time old, with the median eld of 79; 65 pct are virile; 35 percent distaff. Twenty-four percent were 30 to 60 years of age, while 76 percent were over the age of 60. Xlviii percent had an subjacent medical condition: obesity, lung disease, diabetes or cardiovascular disease. Twenty-six per centum were in long-term care facilities.
Persichilli same New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo predicts that his state will see the peak in cases in 14 to 21 years, which could make up an indicator of New Jersey's path forward.
"When we control this peak in New York, we can expect to follow the trend, especially in the in the north," she said. "We are hoping the palliation strategies will reduce the impact on our state, but we essential be prepared."
The state has been surveying closed hospitals and hospitals wings and hopes to tot another 1,360 beds with the reopening of many. The submit also plans to open field penetrating care centers adding another 1,000 beds at the Meadowlands Expo Center in Secaucus, the New Jersey Rule Center field and Exposition Center in Thomas Alva Edison, the Atlantic Ocean City Convention Essence, and other to comprise determined.
"No indefinite is dispensable, All life-time matters. We volition fight to save every single aliveness in New Jersey," aforesaid Gov. Phil Murphy.
The state also announced that daycare centers bequeath be shut down past April 1. The state will certify roughly that will remain open to provide day care for children of healthcare workers, law enforcement, prototypical responders, of import service workers and essential government workers.
All non-constitutive businesses in Late Jersey have been ordered to close. Yesterday Murphy announced the creation of a hotline to report nonessential businesses that remained afford operating room businesses that are requiring their non-essential workers to report to knead. Due to the volume of calls the system crashed today, said Murphy.
"This ISN't a polite trace," He said nearly the businesses that aren't complying.
Tuesday night, Murphy announced that cell phone sales agreement and repair shops, bicycle shops to ply service and repair, stock feed stores, nursery and garden centers and rural equipment stores are now well-advised essential and can remain unprotected.
The state has ordered residents to stay home unless they need to buy essential items, report to an essential job, OR go outside for exercise. All gatherings have been consecutive to be canceled. Law enforcement agencies are cracking down on violations and recently broke up a private party and wedding in Lakewood. Some counties, including Gloucester, began issuing disorderly soul summons for those not complying with the stoppage at home consecrate, Murphy aforementioned.
Montclair sent out an announcement reminding residents that all Rosa Parks, Fields, playgrounds, walking paths and play courts remain stoppered to the public until further notice.
"All township recreation and sports areas and facilities volition make up monitored away the Montclair Constabulary Department," the command register.
The submit has tried and true about 14,000 residents sol far. Officials reported that 29 percent of the test results received nowadays were undeniable.
Tomorrow, March 26, a fres driving force-thru testing facility will open at Weequahic Park in Newark, open only to Essex County residents screening symptoms, and by appointment only.
The premier two days of testing will take put Thursday, Marching music 26, and Saturday, March 28. One hundred tests a day volition be administered to Essex County residents only, and by appointment alone.
Residents can visit www.EssexCOVID.org , where they will be mandatory to complete a unforesightful online masking process before an appointee is scheduled. Residents will equal asked several health-direct questions and to detail whatever symptoms they have related to the coronavirus. Upon completion of the survey, they wish be informed if they are qualified for the screening. If they are eligible, a verification number will exist provided. Residents must bring the confirmation turn with them to their appointment and must arrive past car.
That follows the opening of FEMA-operated testing facilities at Bergen Community College and the PNC Arts Center in Holmdel, equally well as a installation for Hudson County residents entirely in Secaucus and a facility at William Paterson University for only Passaic County residents with documentation from a doctor.
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