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Middletown, NJ
News
Covid-
19: Changes Coming To Paramus, Holmdel Testing Sites As Cases Shoot Above 6,800
Changes are coming to New Jersey's government-run coronavirus testing centers in Paramus and Holmdel. Starting on Saturday, March 28, the Bergen Community College and PNC Bank Arts Center testing centers will only accept symptomatic health care workers and first responders -- police, fire, and EMS. The general public will not be able to access these sites on Saturday. The following day, the testing sites will move to a new schedule, to be announced on covid19.nj.gov. The sites will collect 500 samples each day they are open. Beginning April 4, the PNC Bank Arts Center site …
Paramus, NJ
News
NJ Considering Prescription-Only Coronavirus Testing
Mass coronavirus testing in New Jersey could soon change, officials say. Because of limited staff, supplies and long lines, New Jersey could soon switch to targeted testing -- something New York is already doing, Gov. Phil Murphy said. That means not every person who is a suspected case will get tested, as medical testing supplies and staff must be preserved. "We are going to come to a moment sooner than later I would guess between resources and manpower dedicated to testing verses resources and manpower dedicated to care.," Murphy said. "And that's a balance we're going to have to ge…
Paramus, NJ
News
Bergen County Breakdown: 609 Coronavirus Cases Reported, Teaneck Highest With 142
Bergen is getting hit the hardest of all the counties in the COVID-19 outbreak across New Jersey with more than 600 cases reported Monday. State officials announced 2,488 presumptive positive in the state, with 27 fatalities and nine out of Bergen County. Officials expected the number to rise with the opening of two government-run testing sites in Paramus and Holmdel -- both of which were at capacity every day. Since the beginning of the outbreak, Teaneck has had the most cases of any New Jersey county, clocking in on Sunday with 142. Bergenfield had 26, while Fair Lawn…
Paramus, NJ
News
DAY 4: BCC Testing Site Again At Capacity
For the fourth day in a row since opening, the Bergen Community College coronavirus testing site was at capacity hours before closing. Officials at New Jersey's first government-operated testing told people to leave less than 30 minutes after opening at 8 a.m. Monday. This is no different than the last three days where cars were turned away in hours or minutes. The state's second government-run testing site opened Monday morning in Holmdel. Click here to watch News12's chopper footage over the area. There are 2,500 coronavirus tests allocated per week for the site. Nearly half of the test…
Egg Harbor Township, NJ
News
FDA Approves Test That Can Detect Coronavirus In 45 Minutes
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first rapid response coronavirus test that drastically decreases wait time for results. Manufactured by California-based company Cepheid, the test can detect the virus in approximately 45 minutes, so patients will no longer have to wait days to get results back from labs. Shipping will reportedly begin next week, although it's unclear which health care facilities will be getting them, or how many. Dr. David Persing, MD, Ph.D., chief medical and technology officer at Cepheid, is calling the new test transformative. "[The test can] he…
Paramus, NJ
News
DAY 2: Bergen County Coronavirus Testing Center At Capacity Minutes After Opening
People who had driven hours from across the state or returned after being turned away on Friday were sent home from Bergen County's coronavirus testing site minutes after it opened Saturday. UPDATE: Murphy Signs Executive Order Closing All Non-Essential Businesses, Urges Residents To Stay Home The state's first government-operated coronavirus testing center at Bergen Community College was at capacity around 8:15 a.m. on its second day of operation -- with nearly eight hours left until the set closing time. The site reportedly closed on Friday after administering 630 tests, although of…
Middletown, NJ
News
'We're Going To Tighten Screws,' Murphy Vows As List Of NJ Coronavirus Cases Reaches 890
State officials will tighten social distancing requirements in New Jersey sometime before Saturday afternoon, Gov. Phil Murphy announced Friday, as the statewide total of deaths from the coronavirus grew to 11 and the total number of positive cases continued a sharp rise to 890. Only the governor didn't say how that will be done. "We're going to tighten the screws further, " Murphy said at an afternoon news briefing. He didn't elaborate, however. In New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Friday ordered that 100% of the workforce stay home -- excluding essential businesses such as food stores and p…
Middletown, NJ
Police & Fire
Monmouth Motorcyclist Airlifted After Crash Near GSP In Holmdel
A motorcyclist who wiped out overnight Sunday near the Garden State Parkway in Monmouth County was airlifted to Jersey Shore University Medical Center, authorities said. The 38-year-old Hazlet resident “failed to negotiate” a curve on Holmdel Road just before the Line Road fork and struck an embankment on the southbound side shortly before 1 a.m., Holmdel police said. Responding Officer James Corrigan found him conscious but incoherent, they said. Members of the Holmdel First Aid Squad and MonOc treated the victim at the scene before Hackensack Meridian Health’s AirMed One airlifted him to…
Teaneck, NJ
News
Covid-
19: Third Teaneck Resident Tests Presumptive Positive, State Total Rises To 23
A 44-year-old Teaneck man is the third in the township to return a presumptive positive test for COVID-19 in New Jersey, officials said. He is hospitalized at Holy Name Medical Center in stable condition, according to a release from Dean B. Kazinci, Teaneck Township Manager. Gov. Phil Murphy on Wednesday announced eight new cases including one 17-year-old in Bergen, Monmouth and Middlesex counties. The new cases bring the state total of presumed positive coronaviruses cases to 23. The news comes one day after a 69-year-old man with underlying health conditions died of COVID-19.…
Hackensack, NJ
News
Update
: Tedesco Declares State Of Emergency After Coronavirus Claims Little Ferry Man, 69
UPDATE: The death of a 69-year-old Little Ferry man from coronavirus on Tuesday -- the first fatality of its kind in New Jersey -- prompted Bergen County Executive Jim Tedesco to declare a state of emergency in the county. John Brennan, who had diabetes and other complications, hadn’t recently traveled out of the country but had gone back and forth to and from New York, where the greatest number of cases in the U.S. (125) have been reported, state Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli said. Brennon was a horseman’s field representative for the Standardbred Owners Association (SOA) of New …
Jersey City, NJ
Schools
St. Peter’s University Seniors Fight Commencement Move From PNC To 'Gym'
This spring’s St. Peter’s University graduates learned Friday that they won’t be getting their degrees at the massive PNC Bank Center – but, instead, at the school’s on-campus recreational facility. And they're steamed. Brenda Coates, 21, of Linden said she’d knuckled down for four years at the Jesuit university in Jersey City “just for me to find out that I have to graduate in the gym.” The Victor R. Yanitelli, S.J. Recreational Life Center, to be exact, the Montgomery Street home of the Peacocks and Peahens of basketball, swimming and volleyball. SPU commencements for years had been held…
Middletown, NJ
Police & Fire
Driver In Sports Car Stolen From Spring Lake Driveway Led Police In Parkway Pursuit
Police chased a white sports car that was reported stolen early Friday in Monmouth County. A car reported stolen out in Spring Lake was spotted about 2 a.m. The suspects were attempting to enter unlocked cars parked in Holmdel driveways, police said. A stolen white sports car was spotted by police on Cross Run Road near Huntley Road. When Holmdel police attempted to stop the car, its driver fled. Holmdel police initiated a motor vehicle pursuit and the chase entered the Garden State Parkway. The pursuit was ultimately terminated on the Garden State Parkway northbound near the Drisc…
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