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One is a West New York man in his 30s at Hackensack University Medical Center and the other is a Teaneck resident in his 70s at St. Joseph's Health in Paterson, state and local officials said.
Governor Phil Murphy announced a state of emergency Monday night, making resources and monetary funds more accessible for public agencies that need them to help contain the coronavirus.
Teaneck officials said the township resident began experiencing symptoms around Feb. 28, and remains in stable condition in the intensive care unit.
The West New York man, the first confirmed presumed positive coronavirus case out of Hudson County, does not have any children in the public school district, Mayor Gabriel Rodriguez said. Health officials are investigating his case, the mayor said.
The state's first presumed positive case of coronavirus -- a man from Fort Lee -- was confirmed last week also at HUMC.
The state's second case -- an asymptomatic woman from Englewood -- was been discharged from Englewood Hospital and Medical Center and self-quarantined at home, state officials said.
Third and fourth cases were confirmed in Camden County and Englewood Hospital and Medical Center.
A Westchester rabbi at the center the New York metropolitan area's coronavirus outbreak visited a synagogue in Passaic last week, city health officials confirmed.
An undisclosed number of congregants of Agudas Yisroel Bircas Yaakov in the Passaic Park section of town are self-quarantining for two weeks since Tuesday's visit, Daily Voice has learned.
This came after Passaic city health officials asked that anyone who had close contact with the rabbi self-quarantine until March 16 -- defining close contact as being within six feet of the rabbi for 10 minutes or more.
Thirty-one people tested negatively for COVID-19, with 27 others under investigation, Governor Phil Murphy said.
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