New Hampshire Coronavirus Data: 10 More Hospitalized

CONCORD, NH — The State Joint Information Center announced three more deaths related to COVID-19 in New Hampshire.

The two men and one woman were all residents of Hillsborough County and 60 years of age or older. According to the state's data dashboard, all three were connected to long-term care settings.

Another 49 positive cases were also diagnosed Saturday bringing the accumulative number of infections in the state to 5,299. One child was infected with COVID-19 while 63 percent of the new patients were women and 37 percent were men. Thirty of the new cases live in Hillsborough County outside of Manchester and Nashua, 11 reside in Manchester, five live in Rockingham County, one lives in Merrimack County, and one lives in Nashua.

Of the new cases, 10 were hospitalized bringing the total cases needing more extensive care to 513 or a little less than 10 percent. Seventy-one patients are currently hospitalized. More than 3,900 patients or 74 percent have recovered.

The state noted Saturday that six of the new cases had no identified risk factors with most of the remaining cases either contracting the virus from someone who was infected or due to an outbreak setting.

The state has collected 113,172 specimens for polymerase chain reaction and antibody lab tests with 106,753 of those tests coming back negative or more than 94 percent. Another 1,120 test results are pending. The state performed 2,468 tests on Friday and is averaging nearly 2,100 tests per day.

Approximately 3,775 people are under public health monitoring.

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