For Immediate Release:
March 9, 2020
Freeholders
issue statement on Coronavirus
FREEHOLD, NJ – Monmouth County Freeholder
Director Thomas A. Arnone and Freeholder Deputy Director Susan M. Kiley issued
the following joint statement regarding the confirmation of two presumptive
positive cases of Coronavirus in Monmouth County:
“The Monmouth County Board of
Chosen Freeholders has just received notice of two presumptive positive cases of
Coronavirus in Monmouth County.
The
two presumptive cases are:
- Female, 83, in Hazlet being treated at Hackensack
Meridian Health Bayshore Medical Center
- Male, 27, in Little Silver, treated at Hackensack
Meridian Health Riverview Medical Center (recently attended the Biogen
conference in Boston)
Both
patients are currently hospitalized and in stable condition.
The
Board is monitoring the developing situation and is prepared to take the
appropriate actions to protect the public health and safety of Monmouth County
residents.
More
information will be provided as it becomes available.”