{"id":430942,"date":"2021-04-16T16:20:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T20:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=430942"},"modified":"2021-04-16T16:20:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T20:20:22","slug":"new-hampshire-lifts-mask-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-hampshire-lifts-mask-mandate\/","title":{"rendered":"New Hampshire Lifts Mask Mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-hampshire-lifts-mask-mandate%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=430942&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>New Hampshire became the first New England state Friday to drop the mask mandate after Republican Gov. Chris Sununu declined to renew the order on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs fatalities continue to decline, as hospitalizations remain manageable, and as vaccinations continue to increase, the state\u2019s mask mandate will not be renewed tomorrow,\u201d Sununu tweeted Thursday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"10.976653696498\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">THREAD: As fatalities continue to decline, as hospitalizations remain manageable, and as vaccinations continue to increase, the state\u2019s mask mandate will not be renewed tomorrow. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w1jKVJQZXn\">pic.twitter.com\/w1jKVJQZXn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chris Sununu (@GovChrisSununu) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovChrisSununu\/status\/1382774652146225155?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis mandate going away will not limit or prevent the ability of private businesses or cities and towns from requiring masks, as was the case beforehand. New Hampshire residents know how to keep ourselves and our neighbors safe without a state mandate \u2013just as we did before the winter surge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beginning on May 7, the state will also drop other coronavirus restrictions on retail and restaurants under the \u201cSafer at Home\u201d order, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcboston.com\/news\/local\/new-hampshire-becomes-first-new-england-state-to-lift-mask-mandate\/2356712\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NBC 10 Boston<\/a>. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/26\/march-coronavirus-surge-mask-mandate-restrictions-texas-mississippi-cdc-new-york\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: It\u2019s Been Three Weeks, Where Are The COVID-19 Surges?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone is really doing their part to stare down COVID,\u201d Sununu said during a press conference Thursday, according to NBC 10 Boston. \u201cThe pandemic is not over, and we\u2019re not declaring victory by any means on any of this, but our successes to date have created opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The state was the first to have more than half of their eligible adult population receive at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/new-hampshire-lifts-coronavirus-mask-mandate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox News<\/a>. Twenty-seven percent of eligible residents have been fully vaccinated and 56% have had at least one dose, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2021\/us\/new-hampshire-covid-cases.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New York Times<\/a> (NYT).<\/p>\n<p>Sununu was vaccinated on April 10.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"8.5853658536585\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Just got my COVID-19 vaccine at the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHMS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NHMS<\/a> \u2014 a big THANK YOU to all of the incredible volunteers, state employees, and staff who make the process so seamless! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/603Pride?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#603Pride<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9vPfxnbuB7\">pic.twitter.com\/9vPfxnbuB7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chris Sununu (@GovChrisSununu) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovChrisSununu\/status\/1380930437409869824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 10, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Hampshire became the first New England state Friday to drop the mask mandate after Republican Gov. Chris Sununu declined to renew the order on Thursday.\u201cAs fatalities continue to decline, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276128,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}