92.7 WOBM News Flash Briefing: April 1 9AM

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The Jersey covid-19 death toll is rapidly approaching 300, but some residents continue to ignore orders to stay home and are attending corona parties. Governor Murphy says police are now starting to criminally charge party-goers, as well as party hosts.

Another day, another social gathering in Lakewood that needed to be broken up by police.

We're still a few weeks away from an estimated peak of the pandemic but if you're looking for some good news as we wait for the storm to subside, there's a possibility that in Ocean County at least, that more are people being tested than the disease is spreading across the community.

Long Branch becomes the latest shore town to close its boardwalk in an effort to slow the spread of covid-19 and encourage social distancing.