Eligible businesses - restaurants, food stands, food trucks, food carts, caterers and bars, among others - can receive capital equal to their pandemic-related revenue loss with up to $10 million per enterprise and no more than $5 million allotted per physical location.

Officials say current rail levels are somewhere between 20% and 25% of what they were before the pandemic, while bus passengers are at 50% and light rail ridership is at 55%.

Expanding eligibility is a key step in the governor's goal to fully vaccinate 4.7 million residents by June 30, a threshold he argues is vital to building widespread resistance against the virus. As of April 18, the state put 6 million shots in people's arms, with nearly 2.5 million people fully vaccinated.

The CEO of office services provider Corporate Essentials talks about how the company has coped with the lockdown and the prospects for the future.

For the 14th time in as many months, Gov. Phil Murphy has renewed the order, which allows the state to reallocate public health resources toward the pandemic.

The hospital's goal is to provide education and remove any barriers that might prevent Camden's residents from making informed decisions about getting the inoculation.

For the week ending April 10, there were 10,743 people in the state who filed for unemployment; according to the U.S. Department of Labor, 19,875 people filed claims the week prior.

“The number of people who have been skittish about the vaccine has dropped as more Americans line up for the shot, but the hardcore group who want to avoid it at all costs has barely budged,” Patrick Murray, director of the independent Monmouth University Polling Institute, said in a prepared statement.

None of the mega-sites have been affected, nor was Hackensack Meridian Health in Bergen County, according to Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli. "The large sites are keeping the appointments and filling them with Moderna or Pfizer," she said.

Monday's opportunity is a required first step to be considered for grant funding, according to the NJEDA, and will be open online until April 29 at 5:00 p.m. Applications will then formally open in May.

Legislation allocating $10 million to support child care services across the state is a key measure in helping working parents transition back to the workplace.

State health officials were expecting the Johnson & Johnson inoculation to make up 1 million of the 8.5 million doses expected by the end of June.