At its height during the virus' onset, the state reported more than 4,000 new daily cases and close to 400 fatalities a day. Recent surges in the state have seen new daily instances come in at over 1,000 for more than two weeks.

State health officials warned that indoor gatherings are driving up many of the COVID-19 outbreaks.

New Jersey logged 1,751 new positive COVID-19 cases on Nov. 1, 1,370 on Oct. 31 and more than 2,000 on Oct. 30. That day's numbers mark the highest daily count the state has seen since early May.

Lawmakers are hoping that a set of bills moving through the Legislature can take some of the pressure off business owners in the absence of new federal COVID-19 relief. But one measure that’s left Trenton insiders perplexed is legislation that would overhaul or simplify provisions of the state’s corporate business taxation code.

Gov. Phil Murphy assured that the state still has the ability to bring New Jersey’s second wave of COVID-19 outbreaks under control, even as the state sees more than 2,000 daily cases for the first time since early May.

The New Jersey Economic Development Authority rolled out the online portal on Thursday where businesses can purchase personal protective equipment – like gloves and masks – from New Jersey vendors and manufacturers.

The state labor department is sending out another round of $300 federal unemployment relief checks to roughly 88,000 New Jerseyans who were supposed to receive the aid but hadn’t.

With the second wave of COVID-19 outbreaks slamming into the state, Gov. Phil Murphy said we are nowhere near expanding indoor dining capacity beyond 25%.

The "Lakewood model," as its being called, reflects the administration's recent rhetoric about enforcing local, scalpel-like restrictions to stymie surges of COVID-19 rather than the sweeping conditions that were enacted across the state in the spring.

According to the latest count, there are 5.7 million N95 masks with another 1.6 million on order and expected in the next month, according to the governor who said the virus' second wave is "now starting to crash on our shores."

“Assuming all available funds are spent, the marijuana ballot question already ranks eighth among the top 10 most expensive public referenda in the Garden State,” New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission Executive Director Jeff Brindle said statement along with the findings.

“Jersey City was amongst the first in the country and the first in the state to put restrictions/curfews in place,” Mayor Steven Fulop said on Twitter on Oct. 28. “We aren’t going to do that again so quickly.”