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NHPR is continuing to cover the developing story around coronavirus in New Hampshire. Bookmark this page for the latest updates, including case numbers and

NHPR is continuing to cover the developing story around coronavirus in New Hampshire. Bookmark this page for the latest updates, including case numbers and

Emily Quirk, NHPR After scaling back contact tracing efforts last November amid surging cases, New Hampshire’s Department of Health and Human Services says it has resumed investigating all new COVID-19 infections. “We resumed contact tracing all cases on Feb. 2,” DHHS Communications Director Jake Leon wrote in an email. “Cases are still prioritized as before, so cases from high-risk groups take priority, but we are once again reaching out to everyone.” New Hampshire health officials stopped doing universal contact tracing in November, focusing instead on high-risk populations: pe...

NHPR is continuing to cover the developing story around coronavirus in New Hampshire. Bookmark this page for the latest updates, including case numbers and

Thanks to masks and social distancing, New Hampshire is seeing a remarkably mild flu season.  The same precautions that have been encouraged to stop the spread of the highly contagious coronavirus has also quelled the spread of most communicable diseases in the state, said Beth Daly, the Chief of the N.H Bureau of Infectious Disease Control. During a typical season, about 50 Granite Staters die of influenza. During the 2020-21 flu season, the state has only recorded two influenza deaths so far. “This year has been incredibly different,” she said. “Probably not seen before for 100 y...