Visits Suspended At NJ County Jail, Hospital To Prevent COVID

ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — Visitation has been suspended at the Essex County Correctional Facility in Newark and the Essex County Hospital Center in Cedar Grove as cases of the coronavirus continue to rise in the area.

The county posted the following message about the suspension on its website:

“In an abundance of caution, in-person attorney and non-contact visitation at the Essex County Correctional Facility have been suspended. In addition, visits at the Essex County Hospital Center have been suspended. This is meant to prevent the increase in COVID cases from impacting our facilities.”

The hiatus for in-person visits began Monday. It will continue indefinitely, a county spokesperson told Patch.

“We will be reassessing the policy regularly to make any changes,” he added.

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