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COVID-19 outbreaks at three extended care facilities in the state have led to 10 deaths, 59 residents testing positive and 35 staffers coming down with the virus, the state announced Wednesday at Gov. Chris Sununu’s press conference in Concord.
Saying they are optimistic they can still hold the 97th Progressive Laconia Motorcycle Week in June, the board of directors of the annual gathering said it will make a decision no later than April 30 on whether or not to postpone the event until the end of August.
Gov. Chris Sununu announced at a news conference on Monday that he is shutting down hotels, motels and short-term home rentals like Airbnbs to help stop the spread of COVID-19 except for essential workers and vulnerable populations.
As the COVID-19 continues to spread across the state with 540 sickened and seven dead, Gov. Chris Sununu announced the state now has 14 makeshift medical surge facilities completed to deal with the projected need in the coming weeks.
As the state announced 21 new cases of COVID-19 Thursday, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan agreed it must have been a tough call for Republican Gov. Chris Sununu to issue a stay-at-home order Thursday that closes all non-essential businesses by Friday at midnight.
Several questions were about federal stimulus money.
As many people scrambled to restructure their lives in the new reality of restrictions during New Hampshire’s COVID-19 State of Emergency, many people were also heading to stores that sell guns and ammunition.
A man from Rockingham County who traveled recently to Europe is the state’s sixth presumptive positive case of COVID-19.
Without discussion, the council unanimously voted on an expedited contract to accept $5 million from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the purposes of addressing the COVID-19 virus which is effective immediately.
An employee of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon who returned from Italy within the past week tested positive in the state laboratory Monday morning for COVID-19, the first case in New Hampshire, officials confirmed at a news conference hours later.