What to Know
- Gov. Phil Murphy reduced New Jersey's outdoor gathering limit to 25 people as of Dec. 7
- The state will also suspend indoor youth and adult sports through December, except for college and pro sports
- New Jersey's daily case load roughly quadrupled over the month of November, and hospitalizations tripled
New Jersey will once again sharply reduce the number of people allowed to gather outdoors, and will ban indoor youth and school sports through the rest of the year, as the state combats a steadily rising rate of COVID-19 infections.
All indoor youth and adult sports will be paused as of 6 a.m. Dec. 5 through Jan. 2, Gov. Phil Murphy said, with the only exceptions for collegiate and professional teams.
The state will also once again lower its outdoor gathering limit. The limit was 500, then reduced two weeks ago to 150, and now it will be cut again to 25 as of Dec. 7.
But Murphy also made clear that any talk of a full lockdown was just a social media rumor, and that while all options are on the table, the situation is different now than it was six months ago.
NJ.com first reported the planned restrictions.
The crackdown comes amid a surge in infections in the state. Whereas New Jersey was reporting about 1,000 new cases a day at the end of October, it's now routinely posting more than 4,000 new cases a day.
The number of people hospitalized with COVID tripled over the same timeframe, and the daily death toll rose back to six-month highs.
Murphy has blamed a variety of factors, including COVID fatigue and excessive gatherings behind closed doors. But he has also hesitated to go back to the full restrictions the state saw in the spring, during the virus's first wave.
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