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AdvertisementBy New York Daily NewsMar 22, 2021 at 11:05 amGov. Phil Murphy (D-N.J.) ruled out any immediate new moves to remove coronavirus restrictions in the Garden State as more-contagious COVID variants have caused infection rates to turn sharply higher.Blaming the new strains, Murphy even grimly compared the danger to what the tri-state area faced last winter when the pandemic first slammed the region.Advertisement“We clearly have these variants in our state as we see in New York City,” Murphy said on CNN. “It’s a little reminiscent of what happened last spring we’re the densest state and region in the nation.”Murphy said the fast-spreading variant that was first identified in Britain is largely to blame for the recent increase in cases, which has made New Jersey about twice the per capita national average.AdvertisementHe defended the state’s decision just days ago to increase to 50% the permitted capacity of indoor restaurants and gyms, but suggested there won’t be any more loosening of the rules soon.“My guess is we won’t be opening any capacity for some time given the caseloads,” Murphy said.As it happensGet updates on the coronavirus pandemic and other news as it happens with our free breaking news email alerts. &gt; The worst-hit counties are all in northern New Jersey, adjacent to New York City, which is also struggling to contain the variants.COVID cases in New Jersey have turned sharply higher in recent days after weeks of declines. Nearly 5,000 new cases were recorded on Saturday, a whopping 25% above the weekly average.The entire New York metro area has hit a plateau at dangerously high caseloads, raising a red flag for a possible new surge of the pandemic in the city and suburbs.In Miami Beach, officials imposed a nighttime Thursday-to-Sunday curfew after thousands of mostly maskless spring break partiers overran the hot spot over the weekend.Some countries in Europe have been forced to resort to new lockdown measures amid a fresh surge of the virus-driven by the variants.The resurgence comes even as hospitalizations and deaths continue to decline. But those statistics tend to lag a couple of weeks behind cases, suggesting they could also start to rise again soon.AdvertisementMurphy is hoping that in increasing pace of vaccinations will keep a lid on a resurgence of the most serious impacts of the pandemic, especially since many of the most at-risk elderly people have already been inoculated. Advertisement

AdvertisementBy New York Daily NewsMar 22, 2021 at 11:05 amGov. Phil Murphy (D-N.J.) ruled out any immediate new moves to remove coronavirus restrictions in the Garden State as more-contagious COVID variants have caused infection rates to turn sharply higher.Blaming the new strains, Murphy even grimly compared the danger to what the tri-state area faced last winter when the pandemic first slammed the region.Advertisement“We clearly have these variants in our state as we see in New York City,” Murphy said on CNN. “It’s a little reminiscent of what happened last spring we’re the densest state...

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