New Jersey Reports Highest Single-Day Virus Death Toll

'We’re not at any plateau,' said New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy

Incident Commander Marc Pellegrino talks to media inside a field medical station in Edison, New Jersey, on April 8, 2020. Kena Betancur/Getty Images

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said at a briefing Wednesday that the state suffered 275 additional CCP virus-related deaths, the highest single-day spike in COVID-19 fatalities.

This brings New Jersey’s total number of deaths from the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as  novel coronavirus, to 1,504.