LIVE BLOG - CORONAVIRUS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE: Students, Teachers To Get Priority In COVID Testing
Update: Tuesday, Dec. 22, 10:05 p.m.
The state will prioritize COVID testing for students, teachers and school staff when the school year resumes after winter break.
Many New Hampshire schools have closed for the holidays and plan to conduct classes remotely for several weeks into 2021.
At a press conference Tuesday, Gov. Chris Sununu said, when they do return to class, staff and students with COVID symptoms will be able to get an appointment for a test within 24 hours.
“We just want to make sure that students that may require a test to get back into school aren’t being held back, three, four, five, six days or even a week, while awaiting those results,” Sununu said. “We want to make sure those kids can get back into class as quickly as possible.”
LIVE BLOG - CORONAVIRUS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE: 21 more deaths, record hospitalizations in New Hampshire
Update: Wednesday, Dec. 23, 3:45 p.m.
New Hampshire health officials today reported 21 deaths from COVID-19, tying December 16th as the highest number of deaths announced in a single day. Of the new deaths, nine patients were female, and twelve were male.
So far, 677 of the state s residents have died from the coronavirus.
The state also announced 571 new coronavirus infections, including 63 individuals under the age of 18. The new cases span all ten of New Hampshire s counties.
Hospitalizations from the virus have reached a record level, at 305. The hospitalization rate of COVID-19 patients in New Hampshire is two percent.
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By NANCY WEST, InDepthNH.org
CONCORD, NH In less than three weeks, the number of state prison inmates with active cases of COVID-19 has skyrocketed from six to 152, with 31 of those in the Northern New Hampshire Correctional Facility in Berlin, according to the state Department of Corrections website.
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The number of state prison staff on Monday with active COVID-19 was 21.
There were no active COVID-19 cases at the federal prison in Berlin Monday, but they did report three staff members being positive.
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The biggest increase for the state prison system was at the New Hampshire State Prison for Men in Concord that reported 118 active cases, 2 cases in the prison psychiatric units and one at transitional housing units in either Manchester or Concord.
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