DHHS reports outbreak at college in Warner
Update: Tuesday, April 6, 1:50 p.m.
State health officials are alerting those who attended events at Magdalen College in Warner of potential exposure to COVID-19.
The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services has identified an outbreak associated with events that were open to the public at the school between Sunday, March 21, and Easter Sunday. At least sixteen cases have been associated with the outbreak.
The campus is currently closed to the public.
The agency is notifying those known to have close contacts, but is urging anyone who participated in or attended events at Magdalen College during those dates to seek testing.
- NHPR Staff
Update: Saturday, April 3, 5:59 p.m.
State health officials announced two additional COVID-19 deaths Saturday. There have been 1,247 coronavirus deaths in New Hampshire to date.
The state reported 440 new cases, 3,681 active infections, and 85 residents hospitalized due to the virus.
Since the pandemic began, the state has confirmed 85,448 coronavirus cases.
- NHPR Staff
Update: Saturday, April 3, 9:59 a.m.
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu s mandate that all K-12 schools return to full-time, in-person learning by April 19 caught administrators and teachers off guard, though many schools were already on track to meet that deadline.
Among the two-thirds of schools that responded to a recent Department of Education survey, 60% began offering in-person instruction five days a week to all students who wanted it before April 1.
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CONCORD New Hampshire is offering a third COVID-19 mass vaccination event at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon with the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
Gov. Chris Sununu announced the Saturday and Sunday, April 10-11 event, which is by appointment only at vaccines.nh.gov using the state s Vaccine & Immunization Network Interface, known as VINI. The state hopes to vaccinate 12,000 individuals at the speedway this weekend with doses being administered 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. both days.
Prior to release to the general public, the state alerted by text and email notification those individuals who earlier qualified due to medical vulnerabilities or who are 50-plus and have not yet scheduled an appointment, or currently have an appointment scheduled in late April or beyond.