New Jersey has a strict coronavirus outbreak capacity limits for restaurants, bars, casinos, gyms, personal care services and amusement venues.
This capacity will increase to 50% later this month, Gov. Phil Murphy announced Wednesday.
The increase from 35% to 50% for those businesses will take effect on March 19 at 6 a.m. Seating at bars, however, will still be prohibited.
“We feel confident in these steps given the data that we have been seeing over the past five weeks, since the last time we expanded the indoor reality,” Murphy said. “For example, on Feb. 5th, when our restaurant capacity last changed, our hospitals were treating just under 2,900 patients. That number has come down by 1,000 and been consistent since then.”
The governor had suggested in February that the declining number of daily hospitalizations and new cases would likely lead to loosening of those restriction, though he noted that the emergence of variants has given him pause.
Indoor dining capacity was originally reopened at 25% just before Labor Day weekend. Murphy recently increase that capacity to 35% last month. The new 50% limit does not include employees against that cap.
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