Free Mobile Coronavirus Testing Comes To Maplewood Thursday

MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Residents of Essex County can get tested for coronavirus for free at the Essex County Mobile Test site coming to Maplewood this Thursday. For the time and enrollment details, register at the www.essexcovid.org website.

The site will be limited to 225 appointments and located at the community pool parking lot.

Testing will also continue at Weequahic Park in Newark for all Essex county residents, Maplewood Mayor Frank McGehee said on Tuesday. Test times are from 9 a.m. to noon and residents must arrive by car. You can also register for those tests at www.essexcovid.org.

In New Jersey, the number of coronavirus cases rose to 160,918 as of Monday, and 11,721 people had died. Gov. Phil Murphy said Monday that the totals included 509 new coronavirus cases and 27 more deaths in the previous 24 hours.

Murphy has said that reopenings of businesses and facilities will occur carefully, in stages, to try to avoid a new spike in coronavirus cases. At the height of the spread of the virus, the state reported 460 new deaths from the virus in 24 hours on April 30, or a death every three minutes.

Here are statewide coronavirus resources:

• NJ COVID-19 Information Hub: https://covid19.nj.gov/
• General COVID-19 questions: 2-1-1
• NJ COVID-19 hotline: (800) 222-1222

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