All New Jersey Schools Ordered to Shut Down by Wednesday

A sign displays that Bergen Community College is closed as the coronavirus continues to spread across the United States in Paramus, New Jersey on March 15, 2020. Mike Coppola/Getty Images

All of New Jersey’s schools will close indefinitely this Wednesday, in what Gov. Phil Murphy described as the “strongest and most direct efforts to date” to slow the spread of coronavirus pandemic in the Garden State.

“All schools in New Jersey, public, private, parochial, from pre-K through grade 12, and colleges and universities, will close effective Wednesday March 18th,” Murphy said on Twitter, adding that they will remain closed “until such time as deemed by health officials to be safe for classes to resume.”