There may be a light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel thanks to the development of vaccines, but it is a very long tunnel, and we’re only beginning to crawl through its entrance.

At Gov. Phil Murphy’s COVID-19 briefing on Monday afternoon, he said New Jersey that day had seen 3,573 new cases of the disease confirmed by positive PCR tests. That pushed the state’s total number of cases since the start of the pandemic to 371,579.