NH DHHS: Please note that there will be no daily update or dashboard update on Thursday, November 26, due to the Thanksgiving holiday. We will resume reporting on Friday, November 27.

CONCORD – THe state Department of Health and Human Services announced 402 new positive test results for COVID-19 on Wednesday and one new death, a woman from Strafford County older than 60.

That’s a daily PCR test positivity rate of 3.2%. Today’s results include 319 people who tested positive by PCR test and 83 who tested positive by antigen test. There are now 4,293 current COVID-19 cases diagnosed in New Hampshire.

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 forty-four individuals under the age of 18 and the rest are adults with 50% being female and 50% being male. The new cases reside in Rockingham (105), Hillsborough County other than Manchester and Nashua (53), Merrimack (45), Strafford (24), Belknap (22), Cheshire (14), Grafton (7), Carroll (6), Sullivan (6), and Coos (4) counties, and in the cities of Manchester (69) and Nashua (23). The county of residence is being determined for twenty-four 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 either had close contact with a person with a confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis or are associated with an outbreak setting.

There are currently 125 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19. In New Hampshire since the start of the pandemic, there have been a total of 18,776 cases of COVID-19 diagnosed with 833 (4%) of those having been hospitalized.

Current Situation in New Hampshire

New Hampshire 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Summary Report
(data updated November 25, 2020, 9:00 AM)