With coronavirus cases spiking statewide, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka ordered non-essential businesses and restaurants in Newark to close their doors at 8 p.m., effective Tuesday
New Jersey’s largest city is starting to wind back the clock on its economic reopening, the clearest indication yet the Garden State’s recovery from the pandemic’s first wave is at risk of regressing.
“They have a painful history with what happens when this thing flares up,'' Murphy said. “We are right beside them in the steps he’s taken and the ones we’re taking with him.” Essex County, where Newark is located, reported 133 new cases on Monday, more than any other county in the state. Murphy’s original executive order “remains in place and if there are any local restrictions that pose an obstacle to the statewide response then we’ll take a look at those. But right now, we don’t feel the steps Mayor Baraka’s taken pose an obstacle in any way,” Parimal Garg, Murphy’s chief counsel, said during the governor’s briefing on Monday.
In that sense, Murphy justified his support of Newark’s tailored restrictions as being in line with his deployment of more contact tracing and testing resources to Lakewood, a heavily Orthodox community in Ocean County that experienced a dramatic spike in new cases around the Jewish holidays earlier this month.
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