The state has not mandated masks in private businesses since May 2021.
, Murphy says he has no plans to change course despite New York City officials urging people to wear masks.
Get politics news like this right to your inbox with the N.J. Politics newsletter. Add your email below and hit"subscribe"“I don’t foresee any mandates in New Jersey unless something drastically changes,” he said at an unrelated public event Monday in Dover. “I think people should just use their commonsense and do the basic stuff like get vaccinated, get boosted, if you’re not feeling well — certainly if you test positive — take yourself off the field and that to me remains the right sensible, commonsense advice,” the Democratic governor added. “We don’t want to mandate things that we can’t enforce and I don’t think the market is going to bear that.”New JerseyThe statewide rate of transmission was 1.12, down from 1.44 on Friday.
New Jersey’s seven-day average for confirmed positive tests is 1,881, up 9% from a week ago and up 33% from a month ago. That’s still well below the seven-day average from Dec. 12, 2021 of 3,657 confirmed positive tests.
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