Memorial reports two more positive coronavirus cases

CONWAY — Memorial Hospital on Friday reported two new positive tests for the coronavirus. Tim Kershner, communications and public relations director, said one is a patient who was admitted. The other is recovering at home. Neither is an employee of the hospital. The state said Thursday that 158 people in New Hampshire have tested positive for COVID-19, 25 have been hospitalized and one person has died. Those figures, do not include the two new cases at Memorial. Coos County is currently the only county in the state in which no one has tested positive for the disease. Meanwhile, Maine is reporting 168 confirmed cases of COVID-19, 92 of them in Cumberland County, which includes the Portland area, and eight in Carroll County’s neighboring county, Oxford County. On Friday, Maine reported its first death. and that was in Cumberland County.

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