Mentioned,as i unless there is a very meaningful material development, in which case we will change nlans, tomorrow will be a email, paper release in terms of the overnight numbers and any other news we have to report, because of the white house vtc ii 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. Her right another name well , the statest epidemiologist. State fart, the 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 jersey and new jerseyan in need of on and limit insurance relief can file a claim and receive benefits. Folks are dealing with an unprecedented crush of people trying to reach th
Thank you for coming, i am joined by the woman to my right the commissioner of, judy and to her right department of Health Medical director doctor ed. Good to have you with us. Into my left superintendent col. Pat callahan. Director of the Department Office of homeland security, we will get right to the numbers and we have a lot of ground to cover. So you could please bear with us. Since our briefing yesterday, we have had 1982 new positive tests bringing our statewide total to 8825. In addition, we have lost another 27 precious souls of our fellow new jersey population to covid19 related complications. We have now lost a total of 108 precious lives. We mourn with these families and indeed with our entire state every precious life that has been lost. God rest their souls and as usual, judy will be giving you more color and the details of these both positive cases as well as General Information about the lives that we have lost. My thoughts indeed our thoughts are also with the women an
Governor murphy did you say someone did you Say Something to offend someone . You are all the way over there. Good afternoon, everyone. Not exactly the easter weekend that irving berlin, fred astaire, and judy garland envisioned in 1948. I am honored to be joined to my right with a woman who needs no introduction. The commissioner of the department of health. Judy. To her right, state epidemiologist, dr. Christina tam. And another guy who does not need any introduction, the guy to my left, colonel pat callahan. I also want to a knowledge jared maples, the duck the director of the department of homeland security. Pamela is with us as well as other colleagues. Thank you all for joining us. I got past permission and njssing so i am flying transit colors today. I want to give them a big shout out for all the great work they do. I will find my state police garb sooner rather than later. Lets get to the numbers. Since we met yesterday, we have 3599 moreied that residents have received positi
Thanks for coming in earlier. We will be snappier in terms of our pace because we have folks who are going to be observing good friday beginning at noon. Im honored to be joined by the commissioner of the department of health. To her right, another guy who is becoming familiar. Director, thank you both for being here. To my farleft, state Police Superintendent colonel callahan. Themmediate left, department of directions commissioner. Corrections. Of we have the overnight numbers. Least the top line numbers and we will go from there. We will get into that immediately. Since yesterdays briefing, we have been notified that we have 3627 residents who have received positive test results. That puts our state right total at 54,588. At7 and our statewide total 54,588. According to our online dashboard, that is accessible nj. Gov. Covid19. As of 10 00 last night, we have 7570 residents reported weretalized of which 1679 listed in critical care. 1663 ventilators were in use your for the 24 hour.
Governor murphy good afternoon. We are gathering on what would have been my mothers 105th birthday. And by the way she ended her life for many years in assisted living in a nursing home. And had she been alive today those would be areas that we would be concerned about as i know you are. More on that a little bit. So god bless mom. Joining me up here, a woman to my right who needs to celli. Uction judy peci and christina tan. And colonel pat callahan. Also with us is the Homeland Security jared maples and other members of our team who would be able to answer some of your questions. Over the past 24 hour, so this is since the paper released that we put out yesterday, we have positive 00 347 new positive cases overnight. 3,347 new positive cases overnight. So the statewide positive cases now stands at 16,636. Sadly, i must also report that we have lost since yesterday another 37 New Jerseyans to covid19 related complications again over the past day. Yesterday in our paper release, we had