Covid-19 Coronavirus

Here are the positive cases reported over the last two weeks across Monmouth and Ocean County.

Gyms were closed in mid-March and still don't know when the state will allow them to reopen. Some never will.

Some school superintendents are voicing frustration with what they call a lack of state guidance on a safe return to classrooms as New Jersey remains stalled in Phase 2 of its pandemic reopening.

Health officials believe more younger residents are becoming infected.

The head of the Commission also says a new cleaning protocol is helping to keep more agency offices open, so more transactions are being processed.

We all love spending time with our pets, but many have been at our sides almost constantly during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Toms River Police have identified and charged the man and woman who spit at and hit a Zumiez employee in the Ocean County Mall whose only request of them was to put on their face coverings.

"Our restaurants are certainly safer than house parties where these celebrations are occurring because restaurants and banquet halls are not open," said Marilou Halvorsen, president of the New Jersey Restaurant & Hospitality Association.

Rider University set a deadline of August 17 for the state to move to phase 3 of the its "Road Back" plan or it will go virtual as well.

"How irresponsible would it be to bring in 150,000 plus people who might be responsible for a spread?"

The tighter restriction won't apply to weddings, funerals, memorial services, religious or political activities.

The state had already recommended face coverings at all times in an effort to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus.