May 29, 2020 MESSAGE FROM MAYOR & COUNCIL - CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19)
Good afternoon, I am Mayor Paul Medany. Today is May 29th, 2020, this is our regular update, but today’s update will be a little bit different for everyone.
So, still let’s start off in Deptford we have 502 current cases of COVID-19, but our long term care facilities are the majority of these cases at 398.
Gloucester County has 2,209 New Jersey has 158,844 and 11,531 residents have passed from COVID-19 regretfully.
Like I said from the beginning, we are going in a different direction with this video.
By now everyone should know how to protect yourself and others from this virus. Stay with that. The virus is not leaving our community it is just being controlled, remember that too. Get your health and news information from a verified news source or the CDC or WHO as far as what to continue to do. Regretfully, there are many unverified stories circulating and they foster misinformation which can be harmful to your health, so be careful where you get your information and your news.
Since we have started this stay at home order so many people have made sacrifices. So many businesses have suffered. Too many to list individually or as groups.
The Deptford community and our residents have stayed together. It has been very challenging for so many people in so many ways. Whatever our opinion is of how the pandemic is being handled from the federal government to the state and to the county here in this community we have showed the will, cooperation and teamwork to keep cases at a minimum and protect our community.
We thank all of you for this. Deptford residents can be very proud of our will power to handle this most serious health threat and also the economic hardship it has created.
We have decided to display thank you signs and messages in order to keep a positive spin on this crisis. It is so easy to feel negative and rightfully so for some people who have lost their jobs, loved ones who have fell ill and businesses who have been so severely affected.
Staying positive and solving issues as they arise has been the challenge for Township Council and the administration in this most unique time in our history. We have basically invented a response to an impossible crisis. There is nothing like the power of positive thinking in times of crisis and we need to foster that attitude.
We are seeing a downturn in cases and now we must get back to business openings and other activities. We must do this safely and in a different way, but we will do it and we are going to succeed.
Deptford has been transformed in the last decade into one of the best communities in the region and we will continue that progress together no matter what the crisis is.
Stay Deptford strong. Stay together, stay safe, stay positive, protect others, do all the things that you have been doing and let’s get moving forward.
Thank You Deptford Township!
Stay informed:
Visit the Center for Disease Control website at https://www.cdc.gov
Visit the State Department of Health website at https://www.nj.gov/health/
Contact the NJ Coronavirus Center hotline at 800-222-1222
Sincerely,
Mayor Paul Medany & Township Council