I want to say good afternoon to everybody. Our thanks to Rutgers Newark for allowing us to use their space for todays briefings. So to nancy cantor and her whole team a big shoutout and a big thanks. Tomorrow, we will be in trenton at 2 00 p. M. At the war memorial. And so well be trying to give you at least one days advanced notice as to where you will find us. As this now routine, i am joined by the woman who needs no introduction the director of the partment of health, judy persikeli. And colonel pat callahan and we are joined again and i welcome him back to pats left by the departments of Health Communicable disease medical dr. Edward leftshif. Good to have you back. Before we get to the latest testing results, ive got a few announcements and updates on what weve been up to. Before i do that, i want to give Sheila Oliver a shoutout who is running the d. C. A. As fast as furiously as ever before, the Lieutenant Governor and i made a decision some number of days ago that we would div
The governor of new jersey, phil murphy, held a briefing today. He and state medical the governor of new jersey, phil murphy, held a briefing today. He and state medical officials updated infection numbers and efforts to treat victims. The Governor Also Announced an 90 day Mortgage Relief Program for state residents. Gov. Murphy good afternoon and thank you for joining us. Especially those thousands from new jersey watching us every day life. Tomorrow we will communicate electronically with you unless we deem theres a reason to do otherwise. If there is, you have my word that i personally, along with members of our team, will be available and we will call an audible. Ectronically with you us we deem theres a reason to do otherwise. If there is, you have my word that i personally along with members of our team will be available and we will call an audible. Monday, even though we said 1 00 for our briefings, it will be 2 00 monday. I believe right here at the war memorial. We have a vtc
Reason to do otherwise. If there is, you have my word that i personally, along with im sure members of our team will be available and we will call an audible. Monday, even though we said 1 00 for our briefings, we will actually be at 2 00 on monday. With thee have a vtc white house. 2 00 gives us enough time to attend that and communicate with the white house. We will be with you after that. Honored to be joined by an allstar team today including the woman on my right who needs no introduction. Commissioner of the department persichilli. Dy to her right the department of Communicable Disease director, dr. Lifshitz. And my chief innovation officer, beth novak. Thank you for joining us. To her left, the superintendent of the state police, colonel pat callahan. Also, as always, and honored to be joined by the director of the department of Homeland Security and preparedness, jared maples. I mentioned yesterday that all of the great work that that steam is doing to keep our covid19 portal g
The Governor Also Announced an 90 day Mortgage Relief Program for state residents. Murphy good afternoon and thank you for joining us. Especially those thousands from new jersey watching us every day life. Tomorrow we will communicate electronically with you unless we deem theres a reason to do otherwise. If there is, you have my word that i personally along with members of our team will be available and we will call an audible. Monday, even though we said 1 00 for our briefings, it will be 2 00 monday. I believe right here at the war memorial. We have a vtc with the white house, which is typically mondays. In this case i think it is 1130. So 2 00 gives us enough time to attend to that and communicate with the white house. And we will be with you after that. Honored to be joined by an allstar team today including the woman on my right who needs no introduction. The commissioner of the department of health, judy person kelly. To her right the department of camino bowl disease director t
Medical director dr. Ed lipschiftz. Callahan. Director of the office of homeland security, jarrett with us. Well get right to the numbers and we have a lot of ground to cover. Yesterday, wefing new positive2 tests, bringing our statewide total to 8,825. Have lostn, we another 27 precious souls of our fellow new jersey population to covid19related complications. Have now lost a total of 108 precious lives. We mourn with these families and with our entire state, every precious life that has been lost. God rest their souls. Usual, judy will be giving you more color and the details of these both positive cases as informationral about the lives that we have lost. Indeed our and thoughts are also with the women hospitals working valiantly to save lives and i can only imagine the emotional on them, as well, when they lose a patient. Fact, it isnt easy on any of us. These arent abstract numbers. Are our neighbors, our family, our friends, all of us. This together and we together. But i reitera