624 New COVID-19 Cases; Infections, Deaths By Long-Term Care Facility

Loudon NH

23 December, 2020

11:41 AM

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InDepth NH CONCORD, NH — The state Department of Health and Human Services announced 624 new positive test results for COVID-19 and no new deaths on Tuesday, for a daily PCR test positivity rate of 5.9%. Today's results include 484 people who tested positive by PCR test and 140 who tested positive by antigen test. There are now 6,485 current COVID-19 cases diagnosed in New Hampshire. Of the results reported today: 12/17: 107 new cases today, for an updated total of 854 cases 12/18: 118 new cases today, for an updated total of 652 cases 12/19: 3 new cases today, for an updated total of 622 cases 12/20: 69 new cases today, for an updated total of 506 cases 12/21: 327 new cases Test results for previous days are still being processed and the total number of new positives for those days are not yet complete. Updated case counts for prior days will be reflected on the COVID-19 interactive dashboard. Several cases are still under investigation. Additional information from ongoing investigations will be incorporated into future COVID-19 updates. Of those with complete information, there are sixty-seven individuals under the age of 18 and the rest are adults with 52% being female and 48% being male. The new cases reside in Rockingham (157), Hillsborough County other than Manchester and Nashua (89), Strafford (69), Merrimack (60), Belknap (44), Carroll (19), Cheshire (15), Grafton (14), Sullivan (10), and Coos (7) counties, and in the cities of Manchester (71) and Nashua (42). The county of residence is being determined for twenty-seven new cases. Community-based transmission continues to occur in the State and has been identified in all counties. Of those with complete risk information, most of the cases have had close contact with a person with a confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis. There are currently 297 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19. In New Hampshire since the start of the pandemic, there have been a total of 38,008 cases of COVID-19 diagnosed with 889 (2%) of those having been hospitalized. This story was originally published by InDepth NH.