Speaking Tuesday, state Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli said 188 of them have at least one case of the disease.

The Woodcliff Lake-based firm specializes in the development and commercialization of treatments for orphan dermatologic diseases.

The site is among a select few chosen to take part in the expanded access program, which will allow remdesivir to be administered to critically ill patients on ventilators.

"Today we have identified and we are standing up over 26,000 care spaces," Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli said April 6. "That is in addition to the additional spaces that I know the hospitals are standing up and in addition to the available beds that the governor reported from the US Comfort [hospital ship] and additionally, the number of hotel rooms that we will be able to house recovering individuals."

“This innovation allows us to care for patients’ routine health care needs at a time when face-to-face encounters present certain risks," Chief Medical Officer Dr. Joseph Montella told NJBIZ.

“Although the total number of deaths varies widely by county, the curves appear to be flattening in each county,” reads a report from Rutgers-Camden's COVID-19 Daily Tracker.

The new team members hail Saint Michael’s Medical Center, the New Jersey Innovation Institute at NJIT and Georgia's WellStar Atlanta Medical Center.

Henry Raymond, an associate professor at the School of Public Health, will lead public health and outreach efforts to combat the pandemic.

The diagnostic may be used in epidemiological research to better understand the spread of the disease, and in conjunction with molecular tests may aid the diagnosis of suspected patients.

The New Jersey Department of Health has called on all hospitals to double critical care beds to meet a goal of 4,000 beds statewide.

As of Friday morning, the hospital reported 15 deaths since March 30 and is intubating up to five patients a day.

According to the system, a nurse working a 12-hour shift would likely need to clean her hands more than 100 times.