By Roberta Baker, The Laconia Daily Sun
TILTON — In the wake of an unvaccinated staff member contracting the coronavirus, the New Hampshire Veterans Home went into partial lockdown with 25 residents of Tarr North wing confined to their rooms for roughly a week while they underwent COVID testing. The quarantine lifted at 6:30 a.m. Wednesday, according to a resident veteran.
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