Liquor sales jumped 13.51%, or $17.3 million, from March 1 to May 13, compared to the same time period last year as people stocked up on, and perhaps consumed more, booze during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Requests for drug recovery counseling are up sharply during the COVID-19 pandemic even as social distancing requirements make it difficult for those providing and seeking these services.
The not-for-profit health system, has been focusing only on emergency, critical care and COVID-19 patients. It furloughed 600 employees, almost half its workforce. The first-step in the reopening of services may re-employ 50 to 75 of the furloughed employees.
Closed to prevent the spread of COVID-19, barber shops and salons on Monday became one of the first segments of the economy that could reopen under order of Gov. Chris Sununu.
The state is looking at using a vacant building at the Laconia State School property as quarantine housing for homeless people who have tested positive for COVID-19, a spokesman for the state Health and Human Services Department said Tuesday evening.