CONCORD – State officials announced 81 new positive test results for COVID-19, the highest number of confirmed cases overnight since the epidemic hit New Hampshire.

There have now been 621 cases diagnosed in the Granite State.

The state Department of Health and Human Services also announced two additional COVID-19 deaths on Saturday, bringing the total to nine in New Hampshire.

These were both men older than 60 who lived in Hillsborough County.

The state said 146 people have recovered.

A New Hampshire DHHS press release issued at 7:36 p.m. Saturday included the following information:

Several of the new cases still are under investigation. Future updates will include additional information from those case investigations.

Of those with complete information, all are adults with 55% being female and 46% being male.

The new cases reside in Rockingham (26), Hillsborough County other than Manchester and Nashua (6), Merrimack (4), Strafford (4), Belknap (3), Grafton (3), Cheshire (1), and Sullivan (1) counties, and in the cities of Manchester (23) and Nashua (7). The county of residence is being determined for three new cases. Six new COVID-19-related hospitalizations were reported; thus far, 86 (13%) of the 621 positive cases have been hospitalized.

Twenty-two of the new cases have no identified risk factors. Community-based transmission continues to increase in the state and has been identified in all counties with cases. Most of the remaining cases have either had travel to domestic or international locations or have had close contact with a person with a confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis.

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