WASHINGTON — The federal government is sending over a new shipment of respirators, masks, gloves and other protective equipment requested by New Jersey to cope with the coronavirus, though it still falls short of what the state needs, according to Gov. Phil Murphy’s office.

The announcement came after Murphy spoke with President Donald Trump on Monday morning.

The order is the same amount the state already received earlier this month from the strategic national stockpile, including 84,578 respirators, 201,479 masks, and 31,280 surgical gowns.

Just had a call with @POTUS, thanking him for his support and urgently requesting:

✅Personal protective equipment

✅Direct cash assistance for states

✅@FEMA support for four pop-up field hospitals



We’re doing everything we can in New Jersey, but we still need federal support. — Governor Phil Murphy (@GovMurphy) March 23, 2020

“Governor Murphy is grateful to the federal government for their additional allocation of personal protective equipment so that our health care workers can properly and safely treat patients with COVID-19," Murphy spokeswoman Alexandra Altman said.

New Jersey had originally sought 2.9 million respirators, 864,000 masks and 864,000 gowns, plus thousands of gloves, face shields and coveralls.

Murphy said during a television interview Tuesday he’s “grateful” the state received a second installment.

“But we need more," the governor said on ABC’s “Nightline.”

Murphy made an earlier plea for more equipment on Thursday during a video conference call with Trump, top administration officials and other governors.

"We still are going to need a big slug-out of the strategic stockpile,” he told the president.

The governor said Monday that the state was “turning over every stone” to get more equipment. And Newark-based Prudential Financial gave 153,000 face masks and respirators that it had put away after 9/11 to protect employees.

Goldman Sachs Group and Home Depot also have sent masks to the state.

NJ Advance Media staff writers Brent Johnson and Ted Sherman contributed to this report.

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