COVID tracker: It starting to feel like the pandemic is almost over, but we’re nowhere near the end The recent trend in new case numbers if great, but the average is still very high compared to earlier in the pandemic. DHHS Published: 5/3/2021 9:24:49 AM Last week the death toll from COVID-19 in New Hampshire passed the 1,300 mark. That’s more people than live in Hill or in Danbury or in 65 other towns in New Hampshire, and if deaths keep happening at the current rate, the toll will pass the population totals of a dozen more towns by mid-summer. It’s a sobering reminder that even though we seem to be on the downward slope of our third surge in cases with hopes of a quiet summer ahead, the pandemic remains a tragedy and it remains in our midst.