SOMERSWORTH, New. Hampshire -- The family of the defiant Baptist pastor linked to Maine's largest COVID-19 outbreak after officiating a wedding near Millinocket in August will gather next month for another wedding and reception, just a few miles from virus hotspots in York County.
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
CONCORD — Despite receiving more than $300 million in federal aid, New Hampshire’s hospitals warn they could face record losses by year’s end without additional COVID-19 relief from Congress.
After seeing the number of COVID-19 cases among students on its three campuses drop dramatically, the University of New Hampshire is now dealing with a sharp rise in cases involving faculty and staff, at least partly because safety policies weren’t followed, officials said.
Canada's largest provinces are bringing in new limits on activity after a spike in covid-19 cases, threatening to short-circuit an economic recovery.
Public health officials in the U.S. could take heart at the end of the summer. Even as the new coronavirus continued to spread, fewer people were winding up in the hospital because of covid-19, and fewer were dying.
The global coronavirus death toll rose past a million on Tuesday, according to a Reuters tally, a grim statistic in a pandemic that has devastated the global economy, overloaded health systems and changed the way people live.
Monday, September 28, 2020
CONCORD — City school officials announced that a member of the high school staff has contracted COVID-19 so students and staff may soon hear from contact tracers.
Trying to find the perfect balance between goblins, ghosts and a global pandemic, communities throughout New Hampshire are looking at whether to permit trick-or-treating.
New Hampshire will soon have the ability to conduct an additional 25,000 COVID-19 rapid antigen tests per week, after receiving a new shipment of Abbott BinaxNOW Rapid-Antigen COVID-19 tests as part of an effort by federal officials to increase rapid testing across the country.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of a top U.S. government health agency gave a grim assessment of the coronavirus pandemic that contradicts that of President Donald Trump, saying "We're nowhere near the end," NBC News reported on Monday.
LONDON (Reuters) - Children have 44% lower odds of catching COVID-19 than adults, according to an analysis led by the president of Britain's Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.
NEW YORK — The percentage of COVID-19 tests taken in New York state that have come back positive has inched up to 1.5%, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on Monday, a worrisome trend for the former epicenter of the U.S. coronavirus epidemic.
WASHINGTON — The head of a top U.S. government health agency contradicted President Donald Trump’s upbeat assessment of the coronavirus pandemic, saying “We’re nowhere near the end,” NBC News reported on Monday.
Sunday, September 27, 2020
Eight restaurant industry leaders told Gov. Chris Sununu about how they’re trying to stay afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic.
State officials on Saturday announced the first COVID-19 death in 11 days and 38 new positive test results.
Friday, September 25, 2020
CONCORD — New Hampshire retailers remain split over whether to more fully open up their stores to more customers or stay open at 50% capacity due to COVID-19, officials said.
Thursday, September 24, 2020
CONCORD — Skiers and snowboarders must wear masks at all times except while “eating, drinking or descending down the hill” under proposed COVID-19 rules for the coming ski season in New Hampshire.
CONCORD — After weeks of intense lobbying by the restaurant industry, Gov. Chris Sununu agreed Thursday to permit eateries to move their tables closer than six feet apart if they are separated by protective barriers.
The number of coronavirus cases in the United States topped 7 million — more than 20% of the world’s total — as Midwest states reported spikes in COVID-19 infections in September, according to a Reuters tally.
The Cannon Mountain aerial tramway will not open for the start of the ski season.
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Nashua officials have adopted a revised mask mandate that prohibits businesses from serving patrons who are not wearing face masks.
A New Hampshire woman was arrested Tuesday in Hawaii for violating the state’s 14-day mandatory travel quarantine, officials said.
COVID-19 may no longer be ravaging nursing home residents as it was earlier this year, but the pandemic is still hitting nursing homes’ finances.
The death toll from the spread of the coronavirus in the United States exceeded 200,000 on Tuesday, by the far the highest number of any nation.
GENEVA - Income earned from work worldwide dropped by an estimated 10.7%, or $3.5 trillion, in the first nine months of 2020, compared to the same period a year ago, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said on Wednesday.
Tuesday, September 22, 2020
CONCORD — New Hampshire’s relatively low teacher salaries, pensions and its declining school enrollment made it the worst state in the nation for teachers, according to a new independent survey.
A Portsmouth woman is demanding an apology from American Airlines after she said she was forced off her flight home because her 2-year-old son would not wear his mask.
A Plymouth State University administrator told the Ashland Select Board Monday the school will no longer send students with COVID-19 to the Quality Inn, where positive cases and those exposed to the coronavirus have been sent since the school year started.
President Donald Trump used the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday to attack China’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, saying it must be held accountable for having “unleashed this plague onto the world.”
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump will tell the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday it "must hold China accountable for their actions" related to the coronavirus pandemic.
