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Hackensack, NJ
News
Covid-
19: State's First Drive-Thru Test Center Coming To Bergen County
A drive-thru COVID-19 test center is coming to Bergen County, local officials said Monday. The center will be up and running at Bergen Community College by the end of the week, Bergen County Executive Jim Tedesco said. The drive-thru testing site will create several jobs for medical professionals looking to volunteer can email bcvolunteer@co.bergen.nj.us. Tedesco is looking for nursing students, retired nurses, retired doctors and more. More testing centers modeled after Bergen's are planned for Essex, Passaic and Hudson counties, Tedesco said. This is a developing story. Check back…
Edison, NJ
News
Covid-
19: NJ Deaths Linked, Mall Worker Tests Positive, Bergen County Cases Jump To 42
Both of New Jersey's coronavirus-related deaths have reportedly been linked. UPDATE: Murphy Announces Statewide Curfew Rita Fusco-Jackson, of Freehold, in her 50, was identified as the second fatality in New Jersey. She was being hospitalized at CentraState Medical Center. Fusco-Jackson's sibling was reportedly friends with the state's first fatality -- John Brennan, of Little Ferry -- and the virus spread through a family gathering, State Health Commissioner Judy Persichilli said. Several other people at the gathering also tested positive for coronavirus. The number of presu…
Paterson, NJ
News
City Of Passaic Goes On Coronavirus Lockdown, Reports 1st Positive Case
The City of Passaic reported its first confirmed case of coronavirus on Sunday and joined several other North Jersey municipalities in a virtual lockdown of public and private gathering places. Passaic Mayor Hector C. Lora said the city senior center and the Boys and Girls Club are closed and all Health Department programs and events cancelled. Passaic joined a growing list of municipalities, including Teaneck, Leonia and Hoboken, that went on virtual lockdown Sunday in response to the increase threat of COVID-19 exposure. Bergen County Executive Jim Tedesco warned that all of Bergen …
Teaneck, NJ
Police & Fire
Teaneck Goes On Virtual Coronavirus Lockdown, All Of Bergen Could Soon Be Next, Tedesco Warns
UPDATE: County Executive Jim Tedesco warned that all of Bergen could soon go on virtual lockdown in response to the coronavirus the way Teaneck did on Sunday. Gov. Phil Murphy ordered all New Jersey schools closed by Wednesday. Teaneck’s township manager on Sunday ordered a host of businesses in town either closed or restricted to the number of people they can serve until further notice, as the township becomes what its mayor called “ground zero” for COVID-19 in New Jersey. Immediately afterward, Tedesco urged the 1 million or so residents throughout Bergen County to pay close attenti…
Teaneck, NJ
News
Teaneck Mayor Asks Residents To Self-Quarantine
UPDATE: Teaneck went on virtual coronavirus lockdown Sunday, as township official closed bars, taverns, daycare center, barbershops, hair and nail salons, gyms and more. County Executive Jim Tedesco warned that all of Bergen could soon be next. https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/teaneck/police-fire/teaneck-goes-on-virtual-coronavirus-lockdown-all-of-bergen-could-soon-be-next-tedesco-warns/785013/ ****** Teaneck Mayor Mohammed Hameeduddin is asking residents to self-quarantine amid the spread of COVOID-19 in the township. The township had 18 presumptive positive cases -- 31 total in Bergen…
Hackensack, NJ
News
Update
: Tedesco Rescinds Executive Order
Bergen County Executive Jim Tedesco's executive order declaring a state of emergency will not be implemented as requested by Gov. Phil Murphy, officials said Thursday. Tedesco on Monday announced the executive order calling for the shutdown of malls, non-essential retail and banned groups of four or more people from public gatherings by Tuesday at 11 p.m. Then, Tuesday morning, Tedesco announced he was postponing the order until Saturday. On Wednesday, Tedesco sent a revised order to Murphy for review. As of Wednesday, Bergen County had a total of 114 confirmed cases -- the most of any cou…
Hackensack, NJ
News
Executive Order Closes Bergen County Theaters, Cancels Public Gatherings Amid
Covid-
19 Fears
Bergen County Executive Jim Tedesco ordered the shutdown of public places amid fears around COVID-19 Friday effective immediately. Since Gov. Phil Murphy declared a state of emergency, the number of cases has risen to 50 -- with 17 in Bergen County alone. "It is necessary to use every means at our disposal to implement additional measures," said Tedesco in issuing Executive Order 2020-01A, "including but not limited to those directed at places of public gathering in order to flatten the curve of the spread of COVID-19." The following places will close: Movie theaters with fixed seating P…
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
News
Presumptive Positive Coronavirus Case Reported In Garfield
Another presumptive case of coronavirus emerged in Bergen County, this time in Garfield, authorities said. The case brings the county total to 14 and state total to 30 as of Thursday evening. Six cases presumptive positive cases in the state were announced by state health officials. The news comes after Bergen County Executive Jim Tedesco announced the indefinite closure of schools across all of the county's 75 municipalities beginning at 3 p.m. Friday. "Our public health and city officials are working together to keep our residents safe and informed," Garfield Mayor Richard Rigoglioso …
Hackensack, NJ
News
Covid-
19: All Bergen Schools Closed Indefinitely
Schools in all 75 Bergen County districts will shut down indefinitely at the close of Friday's school day in a bid to stem the spread of the coronavirus, County Executive Jim Tedesco said Thursday night. Bergen schools will be closed after 3 p.m. Friday, giving staff the rest of the day and all weekend to prepare for online learning, he said. Although no students should be in the schools Monday, Tedesco said he expected some staffers would be, as preparations continue. Bergen County had 13 presumed cases of COVID-19 when the county executive made what he called "a paramount decision..…
Hackensack, NJ
News
Officials: Bergen County's 2 Coronavirus Patients Went To Same Care Center, 3rd Being Tested
Both Bergen County residents with presumed cases of coronavirus visited the same commercial health care facility before they were admitted to the hospital for treatment and testing of coronavirus, county officials said Friday. Bergen County Executive Jim Tedesco did not disclose the name of the Bergen County facility that the Englewood woman and Fort Lee man went to, but said the names of the other individuals at the facility at that time have been given to state health officials. A third elderly patient experiencing pneumonia-like symptoms has also been tested by an unnamed hospital in Ber…
Bergenfield, NJ
News
Fort Lee Man, 32, At
Humc
Is NJ's First Presumed Coronavirus Patient
New Jersey's first presumed coronavirus patient is being hospitalized at Hackensack University Medical Center, authorities confirmed. The 32-year-old Fort Lee man has been hospitalized since Tuesday following what state officials said is a "presumptive positive result" of the coronavirus, or COVID-19. The case was first confirmed to staffers in an email from Daniel W. Varga, chief physician executive of Hackensack Meridian Health, which operates HUMC (below). The email confirming the coronavirus case at HUMC.Hackensack Meridian Health The positive test result came from one conducted i…
Bergenfield, NJ
News
Bergen County Man Is NJ's First Presumed Case Of Coronavirus
New Jersey's first presumed coronavirus patient is being hospitalized at Hackensack University Medical Center, authorities confirmed. The 32-year-old Fort Lee man has been hospitalized since Tuesday following what state officials said is a "presumptive positive result" of the coronavirus, or COVID-19. The case was first confirmed to staffers in an email from Daniel W. Varga, chief physician executive of Hackensack Meridian Health, which operates HUMC (below). The email confirming the coronavirus case at HUMC.Hackensack Meridian Health The positive test result came from one conducted in…
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