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COVID-19

Weekly report: 23 new COVID-19 deaths

On Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023, the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) announced 1,203 new positive COVID-19 test results between Thursday, Jan. 12 and Wednesday, Jan. 18. For the previous week, DHHS announce 23 additional deaths related to COVID-19. We offer our ...

Fed’s Powell tests positive for COVID, has ‘mild’ symptoms

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell tested positive Wednesday for COVID-19 and is experiencing "mild symptoms," the Federal Reserve announced. Powell, 69, is "up to date" with all COVID vaccines and boosters, the Fed said, and is working from home. "Following Centers for ...

Weekly Report: COVID-19 up to 22 new deaths, 61 hospitalizations

On Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023, the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) announced 1,660 new positive COVID-19 test results between Thursday, Jan. 5 and Wednesday, Jan. 11. For the previous week, DHHS announce 22 additional deaths related to COVID-19. We offer our ...

Maine CDC head who led COVID-19 response leaves for fed post

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Dr. Nirav Shah, the director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention who became the face of the state's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, is leaving for a high-ranking post in federal disease control, officials said Thursday. Shah, who has been with the ...

Federal COVID aid OK’d to pay for roads, natural disasters

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — State and local governments will soon gain new flexibility to spend billions of federal coronavirus relief dollars on things not directly related to the pandemic, including new roads and bridges and aid to people affected by wildfires, floods and other natural ...

China halts visas for Japan, South Korea in COVID-19 spat

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese embassies stopped issuing new visas for South Koreans and Japanese on Tuesday in apparent retaliation for COVID-19 measures recently imposed by those countries on travelers from China. It wasn't clear whether China would expand the visa suspensions to other countries ...