COVID-19: As numbers grow, restaurants, theaters, gyms to shut down tonight
Past JAIMIE JULIA WINTERS
winters@montclairlocal.news
New Jersey has announced a statewide travel restriction from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. and closures of all restaurants, parallel bars and schools in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
The state proclaimed a surge of 80 parvenu cases of the virus, bringing the statewide total to 178, 20 of which are in Essex County. The number of cases in Montclair clay at three, Montclair Wellness Director Sue Portuese said Monday afternoon.
Restaurants, bars, gyms and movie theaters will totally close in the state until further observation beginning tonight, March 16, at 8 p.m., per a joint announcement from the governors of New T-shirt, New York City and Connecticut River. What was termed as a "curfew" earlier in the day is in reality a move restriction, Gov. Phil Murphy said.
"Last out domestic," he said. "This is not fake news. This is real."
All non-essential businesses are to close by 8 p.m. Important stores such as grocers, pharmacies, gas stations and medical checkup facilities lavatory persist open past 8 p.m., merely occupancy should beryllium limited to no much 50. Daycare centers could persist open.
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Restaurants moldiness only offer take-outgoing and delivery services only and volition be provided a waiver for carry-out alcohol. Montclair Township is now offering free 15-minute parking at meters for pickups.
Murphy said that concern grew over the weekend when officials saw videos posted on social media of packed bars.
"This is not business as was common," he said.
Murphy, New York Regulator Andrew M. Cuomo, and CT Regulator Ned Lamont said the regional approach was needed "amid a deficiency of federal direction and nationwide standards" in combating the original coronavirus throughout the tri-state area.
Gatherings will also be limited to no longer than 50 people, actual 8 p.m. tonight. Pennsylvania is expected to take related steps, said Murphy.
All town parks and town-run recreational facilities will represent restricted through March 31. Police leave be motoring those facilities, officials said. Essex County also closed all parks, play areas and dog parks. State parks will remain open, same Murphy.
"With whol we are sighted in our state – and across our nation and around the world – the time for us to get hold of our strongest, and most direct, actions up to now to slow the spread of coronavirus is now. I've said many times over the past several years that, in our state, we are expiration to father through this as one New Jersey family. Simply if we're completely in that together, we mustiness work with our neighboring states to act together. The exploit against coronavirus isn't just up to some of United States of America, it's up to entirely of us,"aforementioned Murphy.
Ages of the 178 Jersey residents WHO have tested positive right away range from 5 to 93. Eighty percent are experiencing mild to moderate systems, said Health Commissioner Judy Persichilli. Deuce New Jersey residents have died thus far.
The number of positive tests in Essex County jumped from 11 on Sunday to 20 on Monday. The county was not able to provide specific towns for the new cases. Of the 11 cases announced through Sunday, three were Montclair residents, Bloomfield, Millburn, and Nutley had deuce residents each, and Maplewood and Newark had one resident each.
According to state officials, 13 of New Jersey's 21 counties have had at least cardinal positive essa every bit of Monday. Bergen County has been the hardest-shoot with 61, Hudson River County 19, Middlesex County 17, Monmouth County 14, Passaic County 8, Pairing County 8, John Mercer County 6, Morris County 6, Burlington County 5, Somerset County 5, Camden County 3, Ocean County 3, Hunterdon County 1.
"Is this the surge we were expecting? We can expect several more weeks of [COVID-19] activity," Persichilli said.
FEMA examination centers are prospective to open this hebdomad at Bergen Biotic community College and at the PNC Arts Center in Monmouth County. Officials said that residents would be needed to have prescriptions from their doctors to be tested and that each center could probably cover active 250 tests a day. The mathematical date of when testing would start were not given.
Spud too declared the deployment of the National Hold, which give notice be called in past governors during emergencies. Murphy said they could help with traffic hold, security, transportation, distribution of food and the conversion of spaces for someone-quarantining.
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