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
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 new jerseyans have now tested positive. According to our online dashboard, accessible again for gov, as of 10 00 p
I can imagine. Good afternoon, everybody. Not exactly the easter weekend that irving berlin, fred astaire, and judy garland envisioned an Easter Parade but here we are. I am honored to be joined to my right with the woman who needs no introduction, the commissioner of the department of health. To her right is the state epidemiologist. Thank you for being with us. And another guy who does not need any introduction, the guy to my left, colonel pat callahan. I want to acknowledge jared maples, the director of Homeland Security and preparedness. Deputy counsel pamelas with us as well as other colleagues. Thank you for joining us. Permission and blessing some flying police colors today. I want to give the chief and his men and women a big shout out for all of the great work they do. I promise you, i still loyal to am the state police. I will find my state police car later again. Lets get to the numbers as we have been doing upfront of late. Since we met yesterday, we have been notified noti
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 need of no introduction, dr. Ed. 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 council, matt plotkin. Lets begin with our daily update on the numbers and charts. May these never be just numbers and charts. These are real lives were talking about. First, today, we are announcing an additional 347 positive test results, pushing ur state total to 102,196. My monitor is out. If someone could get it plugged in, that would be great. Even as we cross 100,000, we must keep in mind there are tens of thou
He also spoke about the need to continue the states mitigation guidelines, the need for more medical professionals, and stressed the difference between the flu and covid19. Gov. Murphy good afternoon. We with me today is the commissioner of the department of health. A guy right, the guidance who is getting into that same category of not needing introduction, Communicable Disease Service Medical director, dr. Ed lifshitz. It is good to have you with us. To my left, a guy who needs no introduction, the superintendent of the state police, col. Callahan. We have the director of the department of homeland security, and the deputy counsel here to help us answer your questions. We are going to do the daily numbers a little bit differently today and see what you think, if this is helpful, we think it might be. If so, we carry it forward. Typically, we give the raw data of the overnight numbers all of which are reported on our data dashboard covid19. Nj. Gov. We will continue to do this. We wil