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3 more MVC agencies closed by COVID
Updated Jan 11, 2021;
The closures affect the vehicle centers in Newton and Medford and the Salem Licensing Center.
There is some good news: MVC officials expect the Manahawkin Vehicle Center, Toms River Licensing Center, and Edison Licensing Center to reopen Tuesday after being closed for sanitizing, quarantining and contact tracing.
The Newton Vehicle Center will be closed until Jan. 20 after an employee who tested positive was last there on Jan. 5.
Both Medford Vehicle Center and Salem Licensing Center will be closed until Saturday, Jan. 23. Individual employees who tested positive at each of these locations were in the buildings last on Jan. 8, officials said.
9 MVC agencies closed to COVID statewide despite 3 reopening
Updated Jan 12, 2021;
The state Motor Vehicle Commission started Tuesday on a high note, when three agencies reopened, but those gains were cut by one when the North Bergen agency closed after an employee there tested positive for the coronavirus.
North Bergen Licensing Center closed just after noon when an employee who was last in the agency on Jan. 9 tested positive for COVID-19, said William Connolly, an MVC spokesman. North Bergen is scheduled to reopen on Jan. 25, he said.
That happened after the MVC had 11 closed agencies on Monday out of 39 in the state. On Tuesday morning, the Manahawkin Vehicle Center, Toms River Licensing Center, and Edison Licensing Center reopened as scheduled.
More than half a dozen New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission agency locations are closed through at least the beginning of next week due to positive coronavirus tests.
These closures represent just a fraction of the agency s shutdowns of individual locations over the past several months, as it attempts to continue serving the public during a global pandemic.
When a full-time employee who s been at the office tests positive for the virus, the agency shuts it down typically for two weeks since the employee s last day on the job.
So since reopening to the public in early July, the MVC has had to stop operations at agencies about 60 times times due to COVID-19, according to data provided to New Jersey 101.5.