NJ Gov. Phil Murphy Provides COVID Update, Visits 3rd Vaccine Mega Site. How to watch live today. (January 15, 2021)

Governor Phil Murphy will visit another of the state’s six coronavirus mega-vaccine sites on Friday morning, and then hold another press conference this afternoon to provide further updates on the state’s efforts to control the virus.

Murphy will be at the New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center in Edison at 10 a.m. as another mega-site is launched. He will be joined by State Health Commissioner Judy Persichilli, US Representative Frank Pallone, D-6th Dist., Speaker of the Assembly Craig Coughlin, D-Middlesex, Director of the County Commissioners Council of Middlesex, Ronald Rios, and Colonel Pat Callahan, State Police Superintendent.

Murphy’s visit to the site will be broadcast live on the Governor’s YouTube.com channel.

At 1 p.m. Murphy, Persichilli, Callahan and Dr. Edward Lifshitz, medical director of the state’s Communicable Disease Department, will be at the Trenton War Memorial for their regular Friday press conference. It can also be watched on Murphy’s YouTube.com channel.

The Rockaway Townsquare and Rowan College of South Jersey mega-vaccination sites in Sewell are already operating. The Moorestown Mall mega-site also opened on Friday. The other planned mega-venues are at Meadowlands in East Rutherford and the Atlantic City Convention Center.

In all, there were 128 vaccination sites in the state as of Thursday with plans for more than 250.

At least 300,213 in New Jersey were vaccinated as of 4:30 p.m. Thursday according to the state’s COVID-19 dashboard. Of these, 264,556 is the first of the two required doses.

The number of patients in the state’s 71 hospitals with the coronavirus or one case under investigation fell to 3,543 from 3,639, in the previous 24 hours. Hospitalizations have fallen by more than 5% in the past 10 days and are at their lowest since Jan. 2.

Murphy on Thursday revealed 5,967 more cases of COVID-19 and 94 more deaths.

Officials said about 14.2% of the 20,717 tests administered in New Jersey on Sunday returned positive, the most recent day for which results are available.

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