NJ Gov. Phil Murphy Provides COVID Update. How to watch live today. (August 9, 2021)

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Governor Phil Murphys’ weekly coronavirus press conference is scheduled for 1 p.m. Monday at the Trenton War Memorial as COVID-19 cases continue to rise and now all New Jersey counties have viral activity high enough to fall. qualify for interior masking according to federal guidelines.

This will be Murphy’s first press conference since he announced on Friday that students and staff at all preschools through grade 12 in the state will be required to wear face covers when the new school year begins. will start in a few weeks.

The press conference will be broadcast on the Murphys YouTube.com channel.

Murphy will be joined in the George Washington Ballroom by State Health Commissioner Judy Persichilli, State Epidemiologist Dr. Christina Tan and State Police Superintendent Col. Pat Callahan. .

The executive decree requiring masks in schools comes amid the continuing rise in cases and hospitalizations. Most cases are due to the delta variant and almost all of those hospitalized have not been vaccinated, officials have said repeatedly in recent weeks.

There are 651 patients in 71 New Jersey hospitals with the coronavirus or a suspected case as of Monday morning, including 117 in intensive care and 59 on a ventilator, according to the state’s dashboard. That’s more than double the 316 patients a month ago.

There were more than 3,800 patients in hospitals at the end of December and more than 8,000 at the height of the pandemic in mid-April 2020.

Authorities on Sunday announced 1,208 additional COVID-19 cases, as well as six deaths.

At least 5,356,361 people who live, work or study in the state are vaccinated against the virus.

New Jersey has now reported a total of 26,651 COVID-19-related deaths in just over 17 months, 23,932 confirmed and 2,719 probable, according to the state Department of Health. This is the highest number of coronavirus deaths per capita in the United States. The state is the first in the country to record 300 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants.

Murphy has no further appearances scheduled for Monday.

NJ Advance Media editor Katie Kausch contributed to this report.

Jeff Goldman can be contacted at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @JGoldmanNJ.

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