NJ officials give an update on new cases of coronavirus during press conference Tuesday TRENTON, N.J. - Gov.
Phil Murphy says New Jersey will be more than doubling the number of public health professionals currently tracing COVID-19 cases.
Murphy said Tuesday during a news conference that New Jersey will hire at least 1,000 people, creating a Community Contact Tracing Corps and supplementing the roughly 800 to 900 mostly county health officials who are currently tracing contacts among coronavirus-positive residents.
The news came as Murphy announced the state’s COVID-19 data is trending in the right direction, though he stopped short of specifying dates by which the state might reopen its economy.