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Anyone with COVID-19 symptoms can now be tested, Gov. Chris Sununu announced Monday, making him hopeful that “we can have the data we need to move forward” to reopen portions of the state and its economy.
Retailers would like the state to move toward customers coming into stores by appointment-only and continuation of curbside pick-up sales, but allow for cash sales as the state begins to reopen from its closures due to the pandemic.
On Monday night, Laconia City Councilors will be asked to approve the 97th Progressive Laconia Motorcycle Week for Aug. 22-30 if it cannot be held June 13-21 because of the COVID-19.
Citing “unseasonably high numbers of visitors” during the COVID-19 health crisis, the White Mountain National Forest announced Friday it was closing a number of picnic areas, shelters, and dispersed recreation sites. including the popular Lower Falls area on the Kancamagus Highway.
With no decline in sight, however, Sununu said he has an advisory group meeting daily to look at issues for reopening the state and is looking at distributing recently released federal funding to help alleviate the financial strain on businesses and families across the state.
Another outbreak was also announced involving the Easter Seals residential care facility in Manchester. Sixteen residents and 16 workers at The Gammon Academy have tested positive, many of whom were asymptomatic, officials said.
With $1.25 billion in federal money to fight COVID-19, the controversial new office Gov. Chris Sununu created to distribute those funds held its first organizational meeting Monday, the same day lawmakers filed an emergency motion to block it.
Inventor Dean Kamen said out loud what all of New Hampshire was wishing for Easter Sunday as he and state officials unloaded 91,000 pounds of personal protective equipment he helped procure from China.
Voters can vote by absentee ballot in the 2020 primary and general elections because of concerns about COVID-19, according to guidance issued Friday by Attorney General Gordon MacDonald and Secretary of State William Gardner.
The state’s stay-at-home strategy appears to be working, but it’s too early to say if New Hampshire has seen the worst of COVID-19, officials said at Gov. Chris Sununu’s news conference on Thursday.