New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy Tests Positive for CCP Virus

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy gives a victory speech to supporters at Grand Arcade at the Pavilion in Asbury Park, N.J., on Nov. 3, 2021. Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy tested positive for the CCP virus following a regularly-scheduled testing regime, his office confirmed on Thursday.

“This afternoon, as part of a regularly-scheduled testing regime, [Murphy] took a rapid antigen test that came back positive for COVID-19,” Mahen Gunaratna, a Murphy spokesman, said in a March 31 statement on social media.