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Credit Daniela Allee, NHPR The Nashua Board of Health is recommending the city impose a curfew in an effort to slow the spread of COVID-19. The 9:30 pm curfew would prohibit indoor activities at businesses including bars, restaurants and clubs. Takeout would be allowed to continue. Nashua has one of the state s highest rates of COVID-19 cases, and public health officials there say COVID-19 hospitalization and death rates are on the rise. Nashua alderman Tom Lopez said a curfew was the least the city could do, given the mounting crisis. I don t think the public fully grasps that we are in the emergency, versus maybe looking at it further down the road,” he said. ....
Aldermen may soon schedule an emergency meeting to discuss the proposal after the unanimous decision. âWe are not out to hurt people or take their livelihood away from them or be the Grinch who stole Christmas or whatever. These are hard decisions to make,â said Dr. Tony Storace, chairman of the Board of Health. According to the proposal, no indoor activity could take place after 9:30 p.m. at establishments where face masks cannot be worn the entire time, meaning restaurants, bars, nightclubs and select entertainment facilities. In an email to Mayor Jim Donchess and select aldermen, Seth Simonian of The Flight Center in Nashua said other businesses are not being held to the same standards as the restaurant and bar industry. ....
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