6 more Granite Staters succumb to virus, but overall death rate decline continues

CONCORD - DHHS announced 941 new positive test results for COVID-19, for a current PCR test positivity rate of 6.4 percent.

The newly identified cases include 130 minors and 69 from Strafford County.

DHHS also announced six additional deaths, all over 60.

While DHHS lists the death rate among all identified cases as 2 percent, it is actually 1.6 percent.

It should also be noted DHHS no longer lists total hospitalizations in its daily update as it did for many months.

Neither DHHS nor the Joint Information Center were immediately available to comment on why total hospitalizations are no longer released in the daily update or at what point would the death rate be adjusted downward from its present 2 percent.

NH COVID-19 Summary Report

NH Persons who have contracted COVID-19 56,864

Recovered 49,544 (87%)

Deaths Attributed to COVID-19 933 (2%)

Total Current COVID-19 Cases 6,387

Current Hospitalizations 243