COVID-19 rates are stable

ANDROSCOGGIN VALLEY — After a mini-spike three weeks ago, COVID-19 rates are back down and local health-care professionals are hoping for a quiet summer to allow them to rest and resupply for whatever the fall and winter may bring.

At their meeting June 9, Androscoggin Valley COVID-19 group members reported there had been an uptick in positive cases two weeks earlier, right at prom season. But the uptick did not result in a lot of hospitalizations and cases have stabilized. Since the group last met three weeks earlier, Coos County Family Health Services reported they administered 149 tests with 26 positive results. But last week, they tested 25 with only four positive results.