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Governor phil murphy briefed reporters on his response to the coronavirus where he issued a few new orders for residents. From trenton, this is an hour. Good afternoon. We will get right affect right at it. I am joined to my right by the commissioner of the department of health. Through her right, another person who needs very little introduction, the states epidemiologist. Thank you both for being here. A guide to my left is the superintendent of state police pat callahan. The director of the office of Homeland Security and preparedness is with us. Thank you. Numbers,we get to the ive a couple of announcements to lead with. Both relate to write directly to the road back plan we announced last week which will guide our restart and recovery. Signing any i am executive order to create the governors restart and recovery Advisory Council. Togethercil will bring leaders from ....
Good afternoon are three people who need no introduction. The woman to my right, the commissioner of the department of health, and to her right, the state epidemiologist, and the man on my left, the state police superintendent. Also joining us per usual is the director of the office of Homeland Security preparedness, Deputy Council of the guard. One quick reminder that is off given the date we the find ourselves meeting, is before i go through our discussion, a quick reminder that although today is april 15, your state tax returns are not due today. Pursuant to the legislation that i signed actually yesterday, you now have until july 15. And the three month extension is automatic. You need do nothing. Just want to remind folks of that. Now we want to get to the numbers up front if we can. Today we are reporting an additional 2625 positive test results and a total of 71,030 ....
Who will be observing good friday at noon. Honored to be joined i the woman on my right, who needs no introduction. A guy familiar to many of you there, the commutable Communicable Disease specialist. To my far, state police superintendent, pat callahan. To my immediate left, and great leader, department of corrections, commissioner marcus hicks. We are going earlier today than we usually do. We have the overnight numbers. Im not sure, judy will tell us how deeply we can dig into the numbers. We have at least the top line numbers and we will go from there. Let me get into that immediately. Since yesterdays briefing we have been notified that we have 3627 more residents who have received positive test results. That puts our statewide total at 54,588. 7 overnight and our statewide total at 54, 588. To our online dashboard that is accessible d19. Nj. Gov. I as of 10 00 p. M. Last night we residents reported hospitalized of whic ....
Gov. Murphy good afternoon, everybody. Just to remind folks what our plan is for the next couple of days, obviously, we are together right now and i, as i mentioned, unless there is a very meaningful material development, in which case we will change plans, tomorrow will be an email, paper release in terms of the overnight numbers and any other news we have to report, because of the white house vtc on monday, we will do a press conference at 2 00 instead of the usual 1 00 timeframe here. So, i am honored to be joined today, as i am every day, by the woman to my right who needs no introduction. The commissioner of the department of health. Persichilli. To her right, another name well known to most, the state epidemiologist. To my far left, the state police superintendent. And to my immediate left represent the department of workforce development, the commissioner. I mentioned as yesterday that i asked rob to give us an update on the department of labor efforts to ensure every new n in n ....