New Jersey’s largest city is starting to wind back the clock on its economic reopening. With cases spiking statewide, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka ordered non-essential businesses and restaurants to shut down indoor service after 8 p.m., effective Tuesday
Beauty salons, nail salons and barbershops will be able to offer their services by appointment only and gyms and health clubs have been ordered to close for at least 30 minutes each day for sanitization.
“This is not the first time COVID-19 has threatened our city and its residents at this magnitude and once again, we will meet this challenge with determination and guided by data,” Baraka said in a statement Monday morning. “We are Newark strong and can get through this together. We did it once before and we can do it again.”While Gov.
New Jersey reported more than 3,100 new coronavirus cases over the weekend and its spot positivity rate, which was hovering between 1 percent and 3 percent for most of the summer and early fall, is now above 5 percent.
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