New Jersey officials on Friday reported at least 890 known coronavirus cases statewide, including 11 deaths, while Gov. Phil Murphy vowed to implement more restrictions on New Jersey residents.

Murphy’s plan will include shutting down non-essential businesses.

UPDATE MARCH 21: N.J. ramps up testing, braces for possible lockdown

“It brings me no joy, but we have no choice. We will, within the next 24 hours, further tighten screws in terms of social distancing,” Murphy said during his daily coronavirus press briefing, without providing any details.

Among the measures would be closing all non-essential businesses in the state, Murphy said. The governor said his office is still working out the details “to make sure that we get this right” and an announcement about the details is likely by Saturday.

“This is tough,” he said. “The only way that we’re going to beat this darn virus is, literally, if we stay home.”

Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus outbreak:

Non-essential businesses will be shut down in N.J. due to coronavirus outbreak, Gov. Murphy says: Murphy said the state is “many weeks away from the peak” of the outbreak. The goal, he said, is to cut down on cases as much as possible through social distancing and make sure the state’s health care system is not overloaded.

N.J.’s 1st major coronavirus testing site hits capacity after just 4 hours: Officials started turning cars away by 12 p.m. Friday at the site, located at Bergen Community College in Paramus, only a few hours after it opened. Cars lined up at the state-run site, at Bergen Community College, beginning before it opened at 8 a.m. Friday. Estimates say cars were lined up for about three miles waiting to get in.

Unemployed in New Jersey? A survival kit for benefits, bills, evictions, mortgages, utilities, debts, help.: Claims for unemployment rose 20% for the week ending March 14 compared to the same period a year ago. And that was before the state’s widespread business closures.

Goo Goo Dolls singer plays surprise porch concert to support N.J. town: John Rzeznik, Goo Goo Dolls frontman and Westfield resident, played a 15-minute Facebook Live “porch performance” Friday to raise money for the Union County town’s new We Love Local fundraiser. Money earned by the fundraiser will support independently-owned Westfield businesses impacted by this coronavirus outbreak

Coronavirus outbreak brings long waits, weed limits at N.J.’s medical marijuana dispensaries: While a few patients have anecdotally reported shortages at their dispensaries, Jeff Brown, assistant commissioner of the state Department of Health who is in charge of the medical marijuana program, said Friday there are no overall supply shortages. There are currently nine dispensaries open in the state.

Here are the retail stores that are paying their workers during coronavirus shutdown: Some companies are stepping up and vow to pay their workers while their stores are closed. Corporations have varied on how they will take care of their employees. Some are offering pay to some employees for hours schedules, while others are promising to continue offering benefits and will not subtract these weeks from paid time off.

State looks to reopen shuttered Plainfield hospital amid coronavirus pandemic: New Jersey’s top health official said in a briefing Friday that the state is looking to reopen a closed hospital in Plainfield to add additional beds as the state battles the coronavirus pandemic. Separately, the state is planning to reopen Inspira Medical Center in Woodbury, which will happen in about 3-4 weeks.

2nd mass testing center to open Monday: After New Jersey’s first government-run coronavirus testing center opened Friday in Bergen County to long lines and people being turned away, a second, similar site will open Monday in Monmouth County as the state seeks to ramp up testing to combat the outbreak, Gov. Phil Murphy said.

N.J. closes adult daycare facilities statewide: “Today, we are halting adult daycare centers in all of our counties,” Judith Persichilli, the state health commissioner, said at a daily briefing Friday afternoon. “The halting of adult medical daycare is necessary.”

IRS extends tax filing deadline to July 15: Businesses and individuals will have an extra three months to file their federal taxes due to the coronavirus, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced on Twitter Friday.

How N.J.'s coronavirus outbreak compares with the rest of the U.S.: Nationwide, the first case was reported in January, after a Washington state resident tested positive for the virus. By Thursday, the United States surpassed 10,000 known cases of the virus.

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NJ Advance Media staff writers Matt Arco, Joe Brandt, Matt Gray, Amanda Hoover, Brent Johnson, Len Melisurgo, Karin Price Mueller, Bobby Olivier, Allison Pries and Rodrigo Torrejon contributed to this report.

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