Gov. Phil Murphy declared a State of Emergency amid heavy flooding and a massive landslide in Warren County and other areas of the state on Saturday and Sunday.
At long last, the pandemic may officially be coming to an end.
Gov. Phil Murphy on Friday announced that he intended to end the state of emergency that New Jersey has been under since March 2020 but not before renewing the monthly declaration one last time, taking his emergency powers into mid-June.
Murphy said that his office was crafting legislation with the state Senate president and Assembly speaker in order to ensure his administration retains necessary tools to manage the ongoing threat to public health, as well as recovery and vaccination efforts.
Murphy s announcement came after stating that New Jersey would not immediately follow CDC guidance to lift mask mandates on indoor public places, explaining that it is too difficult to tell who has been vaccinated and that a rush to lift the mandate could lead to a rise in infections.