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[no audio] [no audio] gov. Murphy good afternoon, everybody. Thank you for your patience both in allowing us to move this to 3 00 today due to the white house vtc, which we will come back to but a lot of good content, it ran a little bit long. We apologize for the fact. We are a little bit behind. Im joined by the woman on my right, the commissioner of the department of health. To her right, another guy in , dr. Edno introduction. The guy to my left who doesnt need an introduction, pat callahan. Joined by jared maples, director of the department of Homeland Security preparedness and soon by chief counsel met plotkin. Dailybegin with our update on the numbers and charts. May these never be just numbers and charts. We are at it we are announcing an additional 347 positive test results, pushing 102,196. Total to. Y monitor is out if someone could get it plugged in, that would be great. We must keep in mind there are tens of thousa ....
For new jerseys hardest hit hospital. The States Health commissioner and the state superintendent also joined the governor to give an update on the death toll positive cases, and executive orders related to the virus. Gov. Murphy good morning, everybody. Of director of the Office Homeland Security and preparedness is in the house, and i suspect he will be joined someief counsel plotkin at point. Before we get to the daily update, late yesterday afternoon, i received a call hagen, the deputy secretary of the u. S. Department of health and humans services. He informed me that of the 395 hospitals hardest hit nationally by covid19 and which collectively will share 12 billion under the latest distribution of federal funds, 53 of those hospitals are in new jersey. Altogether, these 53 hospitals will be receiving 1. 7 billion directly from the federal government. That is t ....
Gov. Murphy good afternoon, everyone. I want to give a shout out, i want to pay homage to the division of fire safety. State fire marshal rich, lenny and cerullo and all of the guys over here, hats off to the firefighters up and down the state who are as good as it gets. We salute you and thank you for everything you are doing. Im joined by the woman who needs no introduction, judy. This is our third engagement today. Two on the phone and one in person. The department of Health Communicable disease medical director and the guy familiar to you all, great to have you. And the guy to my left who needs no introduction, superintendent of the police, colonel pat callahan. Also jared maples. Welcome. Lets start with the numbers. I think we will go briskly today. We are announcing an additional 3457 positive test results for a total statewide of 1523. If we look at the curve of new covid19 cases, these are positive tests, we see cont ....
Data to the department of health for all individuals who have tested positive for covid19. Good afternoon, everyone. Happy earth day. Im joined by the woman on my right who needs no introduction, the commissioner of the department of health. To her right, someone else who does not eat an introduction. Our state epidemiologist, thank you for being with us. Left, the my superintendent of the state police. Thank you. The director of the office of Homeland Security preparedness is with us. For him. I, amongpat and others, were honored to be joined earlier today by commanding general tots ammonite of the u. S. Army corps of engineers to tour the new bed spaces being constructed at east orange, which you can see here. East on General Hospital and that new bridge medical center. You see the paramus set up. The army corps has provided tremendous assistance at both. I want to giv ....
We will be plotting these numbers over a timeline. We believe and hope that this will put some of the daily numbers into a broader and better context. First, here we go. Here are the raw numbers. 3026 neware reporting confirmed test result and the statewide total is now 81,420. 10 00 hospitals as of p. M. Last evening, 7718 residents were hospital his eyes hospitalized. Two thousand 24 were in critical 1641 ventilators were in use. 90 patients are at one of our field medical stations and for the 24 hour period ending at 10 00 p. M. Last evening, 814 residents were discharged from our hospitals. Lets do this differently and put these numbers into proper context. The first graph we are showing rate of growth of new cases over the past 21 days. As you can see, we are flatten the curve. This is a credit to each and every one of you who has taken to heart our aggressive social distancing measures and who continue to do your part so thank you. Again, these are dailies. The bars are the amoun ....