GOV. GINA M. Raimondo announced Tuesday that Rhode Island has used all of its $1.25 billion in CARES Act funds. / COURTESY R.I. CAPITOL TV PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island is on track to spend every dollar of the state s $1.25 billion slice of Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act funds, and before the Dec. 30 deadline, said Gov. Gina M. Raimondo Tuesday during her weekly coronavirus press conference. On Monday evening, Congress passed a $900 billion COVID-19 relief package…
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Gov. Gina Raimondo tested negative for coronavirus every day during her quarantine, she told Rhode Islanders. (Shutterstock)
PROVIDENCE, RI Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo is out of coronavirus quarantine. The governor tested negative each day of her self-isolation and was cleared to return to the public on Friday, she said.
Raimondo went into quarantine Saturday after Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott, the director of the Rhode Island Department of Health, tested positive for coronavirus. Alexander-Scott s case was asymptomatic and found through routine surveillance testing.
On Friday, Raimondo said Alexander-Scott is still self-isolating at home, and has not developed any symptoms.
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COVID-19 Sunday update: N.H. deaths top 600
Lenora Kahn, her dog Bella, and Judith Albert dine outside of Marjoram Roux on Railroad Street in Great Barrington, Mass., Friday, Dec. 11, 2020. Even as the weather gets chilly, outdoor dining is safer than dining indoors at a restaurant. (Ben Garver/The Berkshire Eagle via AP) Ben Garver
Published: 12/13/2020 6:42:53 PM
New Hampshire COVID-19 deaths topped 600 on Saturday as state health officials announced that another 10 people died from virus-related illness.
Those who died include three men from Belknap County, three women from Hillsborough County, three women from Rockingham County and a man from Rockingham County, according to a news release from the state Department of Health and Human Services.
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