Self-employed firms can soon seek COVID-19 grants
CONCORD — Starting after the Fourth of July holiday weekend, self-employed Granite Staters will be able to apply for grants of up to $50,000 to cover losses from COVID-19, Gov. Chris Sununu announced Thursday.
The state has not identified how much these workers will receive, but Sununu said the Main Street Relief Fund did not spend $62 million of its $400 million allotment.
When the Main Street program received more than 5,000 applications from companies who weren’t eligible for grants, Sununu said he decided a separate program was appropriate.
“This is a need we have identified through the process, and it’s important to see that these so-called mom and pop businesses can get some help,” Sununu said. Read more at Union Leader
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NH DHHS COVID-19 Update – June 25, 2020
On Thursday, June 25, 2020, DHHS announced 40 new positive test results for COVID-19. There have now been 5,638 cases of COVID-19 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 three individuals under the age of 18 and the rest are adults, with 67% being female and 33% being male. The new cases reside in Hillsborough County other than Manchester and Nashua (9), Rockingham (7), Grafton (3), Strafford (2), Sullivan (2), Carroll (1), and Merrimack (1) counties, and in the cities of Manchester (14) and Nashua (1).
Hospitalizations
Two new hospitalized cases were identified for a total of 560 (10%) of 5,638 cases.
Community Based Transmission
Ten of the new cases had no identified risk factors.
Deaths
DHHS has also announced ten additional deaths related to COVID-19.
• 2 male residents of Hillsborough County, 60 years of age and older
• 6 female residents of Hillsborough County, 60 years of age and older
• 1 male resident of Rockingham County, 60 years of age and older
• 1 female resident of Rockingham County, 60 years of age and older
Cumulative Positive Tests by County
- Belknap 78
- Carroll 53
- Cheshire 66
- Coos 6
- Grafton 80
- Hillsborough – Other 1,098
- Hillsborough – Manchester 1503
- Hillsborough – Nashua 586
- Merrimack 401
- Rockingham 1450
- Strafford 288
- Sullivan 27
- County TBD 2
New Hampshire 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Summary Report
(data updated June 25, 2020, 9:00 AM)
- NH Persons with COVID-191 5,638
- Recovered 4,370 (78%)
- Deaths Attributed to COVID-19 357 (6%)
- Total Current COVID-19 Cases 911
- Persons Who Have Been Hospitalized for COVID-19 560 (10%)
- Current Hospitalizations 47
Total Persons Tested at Selected Laboratories,
- Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) 113,266
- Total Persons Tested at Selected Laboratories, Antibody
- Laboratory Tests 18,268
- Persons with Specimens Submitted to NH PHL 31,479
- Persons with Test Pending at NH PHL 250
Persons Being Monitored in NH (approximate point in time) 3,425
Number of Specimens Tested by Date of Report to NH DHHS
Information above, and archived daily updates are available here: https://www.nh.gov/covid19/news/updates.htm
Regional Information (total positive test results, deaths)
Look-back period is 1 week.
NH: 5,638 positive test results 357 deaths (1 week ago: 5,450 positive test results 331 deaths) (+188/+26)
MA: 107,837 positive test results 7,962 deaths (1 week ago: 106,422 positive test results 7,769 deaths) (+1415/+193)
ME: 3,070 positive test results 103 deaths (1 week ago: 2,878 positive test results 102 deaths)
VT: 1191 positive test results 56 deaths (1 week ago: 1135 positive test results 56 deaths)
CT: 45,994 positive test results 4,298 deaths (1 week ago: 45,440 positive test results 4,226 deaths)
RI: 16,640 positive test results 920 deaths (1 week ago: 16,269 positive test results 885 deaths)
NY: 395,168 positive test results 31,029 deaths (1 week ago: 390,536 positive test results 30,767 deaths) (+4,632/+262)
New cases, hospitalizations and the percentage of positive tests have been on the rise for weeks, indicators that the coronavirus is spreading rapidly. Since late May, the average number of newly reported cases each day has more than doubled to about 3,500, up from 1,500. That is not just the result of more testing: The percentage of tests coming back positive has soared from 4.5 percent to about 9 percent. Hospitalizations are also on the rise. Texas has surpassed more than 100,000 cases, joining a small club of only six other states to do so — New York, California, New Jersey, Illinois, Massachusetts and Florida. Read more at 
The debate over how to reopen NH schools this fall is highlighting a problem that we deal with in Concord all the time. The short version is that works for Manchester does not necessarily work for Sullivan County, and vice versa.
NH State Representative Steven Smith 
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