Officials To Give Camden County Coronavirus Update Tuesday

CAMDEN COUNTY, NJ — Rep. Donald Norcross (D-1) and Camden County officials will updated residents on their efforts to combat the outbreak of new coronavirus on Tuesday, officials announced.

The town hall event will take place at Roosevelt Hall on Camden County College’s Blackwood campus at 11 a.m. It will stream on the county’s Facebook page,but residents don’t need a Facebook account to watch the videos. They will need it to use Facebook’s live chat feature.

A separate livestream will also be available for anyone having trouble accessing Facebook here: https://livestream.com/accounts/25094258/events/9107017.

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“Our staff is working day and night to address this pandemic with a variety of initiatives from feeding the vulnerable to providing access to testing,” Camden County Freeholder Director Louis Cappelli, Jr. said. “We have seen some promising signs from the last couple of days of cases being reported, and we are becoming more optimistic that we may be hitting a plateau.”

Norcross will address federal questions and go over the CARES 1.5 Interim Relief Package, a bill that builds off of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, which passed in late-March.

The law provides critical funding to increase testing, more resources for hospitals and health care providers to continue their response to the crisis, and additional assistance for small businesses to keep workers employed.

Participants will be responding to questions submitted via Facebook’s live chat function and a submission form available online. Anyone who would like to submit a question should complete the form at https://www.camdencounty.com/event/camden-county-covid-19-update/.

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