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Family and friends of loved ones in long-term care facilities may finally be able to visit outdoors together in the coming weeks, state health officials said Tuesday at Gov. Chris Sununu’s news conference.
COVID-19 will not deny June brides their day, the state’s ocean beaches are now places to sunbathe, and sit-down dining can go indoors June 15 after Gov. Chris Sununu lifted bans on these and some other activities on Friday.
The state could go to “no excuse” absentee voting under a bill that is being considered by the Senate Election Law Committee.
Sununu’s news conference ranged from the metrics used to open up the economy, support for rallies decrying the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, the state’s right-to-know law and executive privilege during the emergency, releasing the secret names of police on the so-called “Laurie’s List” to what the odds are that there will be fall school sports.
While the state reported 39 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday with no new deaths, Gov. Chris Sununu was focused at his press briefing on the recent weekend of violence around the country.
Churches, hotels, day camps, and driver’s ed can resume service with some restrictions while overnight camps were given a date to open at the end of June, Gov. Chris Sununu announced on Friday.
New Hampshire is seeing a plateau and in some cases, a downward trend in the positive cases of COVID-19 in the state, an uptick in daily testing, a stabilization of hospitalizations, and an increase in access to personal protective equipment, a top health official said Tuesday.
As the state reported four new deaths and three new outbreaks of COVID-19 cases at extended care facilities, health officials announced that workers who have face-to-face contact with the public or co-workers as they return to work can now get testing for the virus.
Gov. Chris Sununu announced the June 1 reopening of Hampton Beach and the other ocean beaches on Friday for exercise-only, no sunbathing. Softball and baseball practice and yard sales can restart immediately. And next week, Sununu said yoga and Zumba classes can begin at the gym, along with many personal care businesses like tattoo, massage, nails, and tanning, with restrictions.
Gov. Chris Sununu will soon receive a memo of agreement for limited reopening of the ocean beaches between his task force and the communities with Seacoast beaches, including Rye and North Hampton.