Health officials in New Hampshire announced 7 new outbreaks of the novel coronavirus on Thursday, six of which are transpiring in a prolonged-phrase care facility. The seventh includes a cluster of cases at the Department of Corrections Secure Psychiatric Device, the place 10 residents and 14 workers have tested constructive for the virus.
Dr. Ben Chan, the state’s epidemiologist, also announced seven new fatalities on Thursday, the majority of which occurred in people of long-phrase treatment facilities. The total selection of fatalities the point out has viewed similar to the outbreak is now 544.
“So, I just want to pause and briefly remark that we keep on to hear people today evaluating COVID-19 to influenza,” Chan explained, all through a press convention. “And even though the signs of COVID-19 and influenza are quite similar, if not the identical in most circumstances, the repercussions and the impact on our communities from COVID-19 is substantially far more extreme. And I feel that that’s clearly highlighted in the range of people today dying from COVID-19 in contrast to the quantity of folks that ordinarily die from influenza each year.”
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The 7 new additions provide the whole range of ongoing coronavirus outbreaks at establishments in the state to 19. At New Hampshire Veterans’ Home, exactly where 51 people are unwell and 66 workers members have examined favourable, the state has recorded 15 fatalities. St. Teresa Rehabilitation and Nursing Centre, which has noticed 31 people examination optimistic and 18 team associates sickened, has reported 9 fatalities.
Coos County Nursing Hospital at this time has the major ongoing outbreak, with 60 resident cases reported and 62 personnel users also screening good. The facility has noted 6 fatalities.
Statewide, well being officials are reporting a 6.5% common optimistic rate, with the energetic number of scenarios achieving more than 4,300. Chan explained there is an normal of about 500 to 600 new infections for every working day.
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“The pandemic proceeds to exhibit quite superior unfold within just our communities,” Chan explained. “And as local community transmission raises, we know that the possibility to our individual, our family members, our communities, our educational facilities, our firms is only going to improve. And the neighborhood mitigation actions, the social distancing, the facemask use, avoiding social gatherings, practicing very good hand cleanliness carries on to be the major way that we have to manage this pandemic, at minimum until eventually we have widespread supply of a vaccine.”
