As part of the Small Business Emergency Assistance Loan Program, run by the NJEDA, businesses and nonprofits hit by the pandemic can apply for loans of up to $100,000, which last 10 years with a 0% interest rate and deferred payments for the first two years.

There were 338 COVID-19 patients in New Jersey’s 71 hospitals as of July 18, of which 58 were in intensive care and 29 were on ventilators. But state health officials maintain that those  numbers are “lagging indicators,” meaning it could be days or weeks before they reflect the virus's current extent.

The president and CEO of Princeton-based Oyster Point Pharma talks about a nasal spray the company is developing that has shown promise in preventing COVID-19 infections.

The Raritan-based company says its is the first quantitative COVID-19 IgG antibody test to receive a EUA nod.

The state Health Department is rolling out “Docket,” which will be available on the Apple and Google Play stores and allow users to show that they’ve received the inoculation.

$3.2 billion was awarded to more than 4,000 venues nationwide by the U.S. Small Business Administration under its Shuttered Venue Operator Grant program, set up to assist theaters, museums, concert halls, performing arts centers and the like that had to close their doors during the pandemic. In New Jersey, 91 entities benefited from the program.

As part of the Murphy administration’s Small Business Emergency Assistance Loan Program, businesses and nonprofits hit by the pandemic can apply for this latest round of funds, which last 10 years with a 0% interest rate and deferred payments for the first two years.

Representatives from the automaker, in partnership with The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, also delivered handwritten "messages of hope" and blankets that will be given to cancer patients at MD Anderson at Cooper.

While the pandemic has largely waned, it nonetheless hangs in the air, said New Jersey Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli, and as such remains an ever-present public health threat, especially given vaccine hesitancy and the new variants.

Experts during an NJBIZ Discrimination in the Workplace panel discussion hosted June 29, said the shift back to the office is a tricky one.

City officials said the plan - which will contribute more than $8 million of the $177 million it's getting from the Biden administration under the American Rescue Plan - would hone in on job growth, so-called “equitable development,” small business growth, and neighborhood revitalization.

A  Superior Court judge ruled that the owners of a Ridgewood restaurant could proceed with litigation against their landlords, who they sued on grounds that they shouldn’t have to pay rent for the months of business they lost during the COVID-19 pandemic. And according to the plaintiff’s attorney, how the case shakes out could have far-reaching effects on the rights of similar operators.