New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) said Wednesday that he will sign an executive order permitting some nonessential businesses to offer curbside pickup.

"Today, we are taking the next steps down New Jersey's road back and each step that eases us down the road is being taken because public health, medical experts and the data tell us that it is now safe to do so,” Murphy said, according to Politico. “This is how we transition to a safe, smart and sustainable way of life."

Under Murphy’s order, nonessential retailers would be allowed to offer curbside pickup only, while nonessential construction would be permitted to resume with masks and social distancing.

Drive-through movies and religious services would be available if everyone remains inside their cars, Politico noted.

Murphy ordered all nonessential businesses closed on March 21. More than 1 million residents of the Garden State have filed for unemployment over the course of the coronavirus pandemic.

The governor credited New Jerseyans for abiding by social distancing measures, saying they had prevented the state’s health care system from being overwhelmed.

“We want to be quick, but we have got to be right. Let’s not forget where we were only six weeks ago on April 6, when we first shared our worst-case projections,” Murphy said, according to the news outlet.

“We were preparing, it’s hard to almost believe this now, for upward of 36,000 hospitalizations with 9,000 New Jerseyans in the ICUs and 7,500 of them connected to ventilators. But because of your hard work everybody, that never really came close,” he added.

Data indicate the virus peaked in New Jersey on April 13 and 14, and total coronavirus-related hospitalizations are down by nearly half from the peak since then. Patients on ventilators and in intensive care are also down, and Murphy said deaths are down by more than one-third.

New Jersey has a statewide total of 141,560 cases of the virus as of Wednesday. A total of 9,702 of its residents have died.