7 MVC agencies now closed due to COVID Updated Mar 01, 2021; State Motor Vehicle Commission officials closed agencies in Newark, Vineland, Salem, and Lodi Licensing Centers after a single employee tested positive for the coronavirus at each location. That brings the total to 7 agencies closed statewide of 39, all of which are among the 23 agencies designated to handle driver’s license transactions. Newark Regional Licensing Center will be closed until Wednesday, March 10 after an employee who tested positive was last in the agency on Feb. 23, MVC officials said. Vineland, Salem, and Lodi Licensing Centers will be closed until Monday, March 15. The single employee who tested positive at each of these locations was last in those agencies on Feb. 27.