On the same day Gov. Phil Murphy said officials would soon share a “broad blueprint” on how New Jersey will begin to re-open from the near-lockdown the state has been under for weeks due to the coronavirus pandemic, state Senate President Stephen Sweeney on Monday unveiled a plan that could furlough 100,000 state workers.

The caveat to Sweeney’s proposal is that many of those employees would be able to collect payments that would exceed regular wages because of the recent expansion in unemployment benefits.

Health officials said another 177 New Jersey residents have died of COVID-19, pushing the state’s death total to 4,377. At least 88,806 have tested positive since March 4, though 80 to 85% of cases are mild or moderate.

In addition, the number of people hospitalized has decreased for five straight days, an indication that the spread of the virus is slowing, Murphy said.

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Here’s a roundup of coronavirus news:

Trump says he’ll ‘suspend immigration’ because of coronavirus, offers no details: President Donald Trump said Monday that he will sign an executive order “to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States” because of the coronavirus. He offered no details as to what immigration programs might be affected by the order.

QuickChek now offers curbside pickup in response to coronavirus: Convenience store chain QuickChek announced it is now offering curbside pickup at all stores in response to the coronavirus pandemic. To use the service, customers must place an order on QuickChek’s app, select the curbside pickup option, enter the make and color of the car, and call the store upon arrival.

After 2nd driver dies of coronavirus, union says NJ Transit needs to give them hazardous duty pay: After a veteran NJ Transit bus driver with 28-years behind the wheel became the second to die from the coronavirus, bus union officials said they need hazardous duty pay and on-site testing for the coronavirus. The Amalgamated Transit Union New Jersey State Council is also demanding more frequent bus sanitizing and masks, protections they said are needed for workers and riders.

Lakewood venue will host small wedding ceremonies, mayor says. AG says that’s not OK: A Lakewood event space is being used to hold socially distant wedding ceremonies amid the coronavirus outbreak, the mayor and religious officials said Monday, though state and county officials say the venue was not approved to re-open. Lakewood Rabbi Moshe Zev Weisberg said the arrangement to have small ceremonies at Ateres Reva, a catering hall attached to a school on Summer Avenue, was made in consultation with municipal officials and police.

Man threatened to run over people at coronavirus test site, cops say. Murphy again calls out ‘knuckleheads.': A man who threatened to run over patients seeking coronavirus tests at a Rite Aide pharmacy and an unregistered motorist who told police she was out playing Pokemon Go where among New Jersey’s latest installment of people accused of offenses tied to the pandemic, officials said.

N.J. releases statewide list of coronavirus cases, deaths in nursing homes: The state of New Jersey — after weeks of refusing to release a list of nursing homes where the patients have died or tested positive for the coronavirus — finally released an accounting of facilities where COVID-19 has taken a toll among the elderly. State Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli said Monday the state has continued to reinforce the obligations of facilities of their obligations to provide the number of cases.

Worldwide coronavirus cases: More than 171,000 of the approximately 2.5 million people who tested positive for the coronavirus have died, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. As of 7 a.m. Tuesday, at least 656,000 have recovered.

U.S. cases: In the United States, more than 42,000 of the roughly 788,000 to be infected have been killed, the center said. More than 73,000 have recovered as of 7 a.m. Tuesday.

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The Associated Press and NJ Advance Media staff writers Nicolette Accardi, Matt Arco, Larry Higgs, Noah Cohen, Ted Sherman and Avalon Zoppo contributed to this report.