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COVID-19 cases among school-age children in New Hampshire are on the rise, with kids under the age of nineteen now making up a quarter of new daily cases.
Cases among Granite Staters of all age groups under 70 have increased over the past month, but the increase is most noticeable among young people. This follows national trends, and is believed to be in part because spread among older adults is slowing as more become vaccinated.
As of Wednesday, the state s weekly average of new daily cases was around 450. The weekly average of new cases among kids was around 115 a day, close to the level it was during the COVID-19 surge in December.
Some Schools Say They Can t Meet Sununu s Reopening Deadline
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Some school districts say they need more time to fully reopen than they have under the April 19 deadline Gov. Chris Sununu has set. They point to teacher vaccination timelines, understaffing, and inability to social distance on buses and in some classrooms as the major hurtles to a full return.
After Sununu’s executive order, the Monadnock Regional School District school board voted to stick with their original plan to reopen fully on May 3.
In a letter to Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut, the board chairman wrote: “We cannot in good conscience place our partially vaccinated non-fully protected employees in situations where we know less than three feet of distancing is likely.