COVID-19: Montclair sees two more deaths from COVID-19
By ERIN ROLL
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As of this afternoon, March 24, the confirmed number of COVID-19 cases in Montclair is 21, climb from the 13 reportable yesterday. Two more residents did not survive the sickness, bringing the total to four, according to Montclair Wellness officials.
Unprecedented Jersey now has a total of 44 deaths from COVID-19, arsenic the total number of positive cases in the state exceeds 3,500. The United States Department of State declared 17 additional deaths on Tuesday, March 24, which is the largest one-day increase in fatalities.
The state has placed residents to rest home unless they indigence to corrupt essential items, write up to an essential occupation, or go outside for exercise. All non-essential businesses in New Jersey have been ordered to close.
"And if anyone is looking to me to justify the reasons for taking these steps we have purloined," Gov. Phil Murphy said, "I can give you 44 reasons."
The state now has 3,675 positive cases, with 846 new confident cases being reported overnight.
The ages and genders of the gone were not released. There were five deaths in Bergen County; three each in Essex and Monmouth counties; two in W. H. Hudson County; and indefinite to each one in Monmouth, Camden, Passaic and Union counties.
Essex County saw 63 new cases, bringing the county-big summate to 342 cases. Essex has the second-highest number of cases of any county in Unused Jersey. Nine deaths have been reported in Essex since Butt 18, when the first two deaths in the county were announced.
Bergen County still has the highest number of cases, with 61 new cases bringing their total to 701.
Ix of the deaths that were announced Tuesday are related to with long-condition care facilities, Health Commissioner Judy Persichelli said. There are now a absolute of 19 long care facilities and nursing homes that rich person experienced at least one death connected COVID-19.
The St. Joseph Senior Home in Woodbridge, which is operated aside the Little Servant Sisters of the Pure Creation, is in the process of transferring its patients to another facility, since 12 of its staff have become ill. The home may end up having to close, Persichilli said.
In Montclair, the Family of Caring nursing home base has been associated with tercet deaths, unitary of which was of the facility's executive director, Bergenfield resident St. John Cofrancesco, on March 19.
Hospitals in Recently Jersey and around the United States have been experiencing a shortage of personal protective equipment (PPEs), including N95 face masks.
Inexperient Jersey is due to receive a load of N95 masks, respirators and other PPEs from the federal stockpile, Murphy said. PSE&G is likewise donating 50,000 N95 masks from its personal supply, and companies such as Apple, Glaxo, Walgreens and Prudential are also donating supplies.
Water utilities have been sequent not to close off residents' piss finished payment issues.
The state will be orifice up field hospitals in four locations: the Meadowlands Sports and Exposition Authority; the Edison Conventionality Center; the Atlantic Ocean City Formula Center, and an urban look and saving installation to be determined.
County-level examination facilities are hatchway up. Passaic County is expected to staring a testing center at William Paterson University on Wednesday. That readiness is unfold only to county residents who bear support from their doctor. And residents are urged not to go to their doctor to invite a exam unless they are showing symptoms.
Employers are required to have employees work from home, unless IT is not feasible to do and then. Murphy said the state has received calls from employees reporting that their employers are violating this rule.
Reports about a company violating the make for-from-home policy can be successful at 609-963-6817.
All of the state's public and private schools are closed; Montclair made the decision to thick on March 13, ahead of the state's rank for each districts to finish if they had not already done so.
Spud said the state has non definitively decided whether schools will remain closed for the remainder of the twelvemonth. He said that residents should expect schools to live closed for a "meaningful" catamenia of time.
New Jersey has applied for a federal waiver to suspend the replaceable testing requirement for the year. White potato aforementioned that this will not affect graduation rates.
"We'Ra not going to forbid kids from graduating higher educate because of the decisions we'rhenium making today about health Beaver State about standardized examination," Murphy said.
Regarding state aid for schools, Murphy same the state treasurer's part would have more information in the years ahead.
The express has not set daycare centers to close together.
Essential employees like healthcare workers, law enforcement and first responders need to report to work in person. These employees are in need of childcare. "We're trying not to tilt the auto so much that information technology falls murder the tracks," Murphy said. However, he said, the discussion is on-going, and once it has been ensured that healthcare workers and first responders have satisfactory access to shaver care, the subject of daycares staying open buns be revisited.
Persichilli noted that nationwide, 40 percent of nurses are special providers for their families or are divorced parents. She said the state will flavour into identifying child care centers that are roughly hospitals, so first responders terminate have access to them. "We will figure out this out."
Editor in chief's bank note: This story has been updated to remove a reference to Van Dyk in relation to the Family of Caring nursing house. Van Dyk has not owned the breast feeding home since Oct 2018, and does not currently operate the zero in any capacity.
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