Governor Phil Murphy took his report on Trenton’s coronaviruses to one of the state’s locations for COVID-19.
In Ocean County, Lakewood experienced an increase in coronavirus cases, resulting in a 27% positivity rate among those examined, while the state rate is 3%.
The fast-growing municipality is partly to blame for the accumulation of COVID-19 in Ocean County, which registered 190 new instances on Friday, in the state and more than double in the following county.
At the open-air assembly at Ocean County Airport in Berkeley’s Bayville segment, Murphy said Lakewood and Ocean counties figures are “deeply troubling” but that “there is no one to point out with their hand or blame. “
Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli said there is “no singles event” to blame for the increase, however, she said there have been large devout celebrations that may have been linked to close contact.
“There have been reports of giant gatherings, weddings, funerals where social estrangement and mask disguise could not have been systematically followed,” Persichilli said.
The most recent cases concerned other people in their twenties, thirties and forties.
Lakewood Councilman Meir Lichtenstein told the governor that there was an assembly Thursday of more than a hundred rabbis in the municipality to talk about higher evidence and be attentive to social estlusion.
“In my synapassga, we have 4 tents on 4 sides of the synagogue so other people have more space. Everywhere you spend in Lakewood, you see more tents popping up everywhere. It’s not just the Soucca for the holidays,” Lichtenstein said.
Public and personal schools are making their component in stopping the coronavirus in Lakewood.
Rabbi Avi Schnall, director of Agudath Israel of America in New Jersey, said nearly a hundred yeshivas, or personal Jewish schools in Lakewood, complied with social esthyding protocols.
“My son goes to school every morning. You can’t get on the bus without having your mask,” Schnall said.
Lakewood school superintendent Laura Winters said there were no plans to replace the district’s five-day schooling plan, but said he was tracking the numbers.
“On Thursday since September 1, we have seven academics and about 10 teachers who have been positive at COVID,” Winters said, adding that next week a check will open at Lakewood High School.
State Sen. Robert Singer, Republican for Oceania, said there was a vital connection between the wonderful vacations of the citizens of Lakewood’s domain with the communities of Muncie and Brooklyn in New York.
“There are several trips, ” said Singer.
Murphy said he wouldn’t force the whole county to quarantine because he thinks it’s “a circle of relatives in New Jersey” and that it wouldn’t be practical or feasible.
The governor also had warning words for the entire state and rebuked those he said were “reckless and irresponsible things” about the severity of the pandemic.
“Let there be no doubt about what the facts tell us. That we have a significant number of cases and that is only in Ocean County. There are ups and downs in this state,” Murphy said.
“We are at the center of the fight. And the main thing is all we have in the absence of therapeutics and in the absence of a vaccine” as social estating, disguised as mask, hand washing, testing.
“People we can’t let go of. Enough of those reckless and irresponsible words and behaviors. It’s time to turn to science, knowledge and facts,” Murphy said.
The Republican county government represented in the assembly through county administrator Carl Block. Ocean County Sheriff Mike Mastronardy wasn’t present either, but Murphy said they had a “good exchange” in advance and mastronardy would be listening online.
Republican leaders in Ocean County criticized Murphy’s postal voting plan for the November election and its enduring restrictions on indoor meals. In August, Freeholder Jack Kelly Murphy, a “left-wing socialist dictator. “
Two hours before the meeting, the owners joined members of the Ocean County Shadow Tree Commission and the Ocean County Heritage and Culture Commission to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II with the planting of a tulip poplar off historic Ocean County. Courthouse in Toms River.
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