TRENTON, New Jersey (WABC) New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy is voluntarily in quarantine after a family member tested positive for the coronavirus, according to a statement released Wednesday. Per guidance from public health officials, the contact tracing process has begun to notify everyone who may have come into contact with the Governor s family member during the potential infection window, the statement said.
Murphy does not qualify as an exposed close contact, but has canceled in-person events and is voluntarily quarantining out of an abundance of caution.
Murphy tested negative during a regularly-schedule COVID-19 test on Wednesday morning. From the beginning, the Governor has taken every precaution to limit the spread of COVID-19. Today s exceedingly cautious steps are part of that ongoing commitment, the statement said.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo lifted COVID restrictions in the state s orange and yellow zone micro-clusters. A few yellow zones remain in the Bronx, Washington Heights, Queens, a
Before they installed the sprayers in all six ambulances, they would use a handheld sprayer. It was snails-pace technology. It was cumbersome because we didn t carry it on the ambulances, someone had to be called, had to respond to the hospital, spray down the truck and then get it back in service so that would be about a 30 minutes out of service time, Rosen said.
Thanks to the cleaning system, the turnaround time between dropping off a patient at the hospital and getting back into service has dramatically dropped.
While the push is on to get more of the COVID-19 vaccine, there is some hope on the horizon as both Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca are nearing the end of their vaccine trials.
With the state s positivity rate being just over 10%, second doses become that much more important.
Health care workers who received their first dose 28 days ago are now getting their second dose as scheduled amid concerns of widespread availability in New Jersey.
A vaccine center in Newark at Essex County College, one of the first to be opened, will be administering second doses to those health care workers.
The state has six vaccine mega-sites open the most recent opening Friday in East Rutherford at the Meadowlands.
However, there are more people eligible to be vaccinated than there are available vaccines.
Toni Yates reports on the couple offering good to those in need during the pandemic.
The soup kitchen, supported by Franciscan Charities, would feed hundreds of families in the dining hall until COVID forced the space to shut down - but it did not stop the outreach. It s changed in a dramatic way in that now there are more working poor, people who have lost their jobs, who have not been unemployed before but are now either unemployed or underemployed, Miller said.
Volunteers continue to show up because they could not leave their clients hungry. The chef kept cooking and meals were handed out outside - with precautions in place.