CONCORD, NH – On Saturday, November 14, 2020, DHHS announced 384 new positive test results for COVID-19, for a daily PCR test positivity rate of 2.4 percent. Today’s results include 277 people who tested positive by PCR test and 107 who tested positive by antigen test. There are now 2,970 current COVID-19 cases diagnosed in New Hampshire.
Several cases are still under investigation. Additional information from ongoing investigations will be incorporated into future COVID-19 updates. Of those with complete information, there are thirty-eight individuals under the age of 18 and the rest are adults with 54 percent being female and 46 percent being male. The new cases reside in Rockingham (76), Hillsborough County other than Manchester and Nashua (58), Strafford (50), Belknap (21), Merrimack (20), Cheshire (15), Grafton (15), Sullivan (8), Coos (6), and Carroll (1) counties, and in the cities of Manchester (48) and Nashua (38). The county of residence is being determined for twenty-eight new cases.
DHHS has also announced one additional death related to COVID-19.
- 1 male resident of Sullivan County, 60 years of age and older
There are currently 68 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19. In New Hampshire since the start of the pandemic, there have been a total of 14,311 cases of COVID-19 diagnosed with 813 (6 percent) of those having been hospitalized.
Current Situation in New Hampshire
 New Hampshire 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Summary Report (data updated November 14, 2020, 9 a.m.)
| NH Persons with COVID-19 (see 1 below) | 14,311 |
| Recovered | 10,842 (76%) |
| Deaths Attributed to COVID-19 | 499 (3%) |
| Total Current COVID-19 Cases | 2,970 |
| Persons Who Have Been Hospitalized for COVID-19 | 813 (6%) |
| Current Hospitalizations | 68 |
| Total Persons Tested at Selected Laboratories, Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)2 | 381,412 |
| Total Persons Tested at Selected Laboratories, Antibody Laboratory Tests (see 2 below) | 32,612 |
| Persons with Specimens Submitted to NH PHL | N/A |
| Persons with Test Pending at NH PHL (see 3 below) | 591 |
| Persons Being Monitored in NH (approximate point in time) | 6,100 |
1 Includes specimens positive at any laboratory and those confirmed by CDC confirmatory testing.
2 Includes specimens tested at the NH Public Health Laboratories (PHL), LabCorp, Quest, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Mako, certain hospital laboratories, the University of New Hampshire and their contracted laboratory, and those sent to CDC prior to NH PHL testing capacity.
3 Includes specimens received and awaiting testing at NH PHL. Does not include tests pending at commercial laboratories.
Number of Tests Conducted by Date of Report to NH DHHS
| Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Tests | ||||||||
| Testing Laboratory | 11/7 | 11/8 | 11/9 | 11/10 | 11/11 | 11/12 | 11/13 | Daily Average |
| NH Public Health Laboratories | 778 | 616 | 292 | 368 | 1,051 | 869 | 966 | 706 |
| LabCorp | 1,172 | 827 | 814 | 1,573 | 1,744 | 1,255 | 450 | 1,119 |
| Quest Diagnostics | 1,901 | 2,619 | 1,692 | 2,244 | 1,959 | 2,647 | 641 | 1,958 |
| Mako Medical | 319 | 217 | 54 | 2 | 13 | 279 | 76 | 137 |
| Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center | 721 | 254 | 156 | 462 | 648 | 613 | 65 | 417 |
| Other NH Hospital Laboratory | 423 | 292 | 369 | 569 | 739 | 560 | 383 | 476 |
| Other Laboratory* | 1,952 | 277 | 839 | 1,494 | 2,235 | 1,957 | 2,032 | 1,541 |
| University of New Hampshire** | 2,737 | 70 | 4,340 | 3,289 | 3,326 | 3,902 | 3,204 | 2,981 |
| Total | 10,003 | 5,172 | 8,556 | 10,001 | 11,715 | 12,082 | 7,817 | 9,335 |
| Antibody Laboratory Tests | ||||||||
| Testing Laboratory | 11/7 | 11/8 | 11/9 | 11/10 | 11/11 | 11/12 | 11/13 | Daily Average |
| LabCorp | 4 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 4 |
| Quest Diagnostics | 17 | 7 | 14 | 27 | 13 | 26 | 23 | 18 |
| Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center | 2 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 0 | 5 |
| Other Laboratory* | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 2 | 4 |
| Total | 23 | 13 | 24 | 46 | 32 | 57 | 25 | 31 |
* Includes out-of-state public health laboratories, out-of-state hospital laboratories, and other commercial laboratories not listed in the above table.
** Includes tests conducted at the UNH laboratory and their contracted lab Veritas.
