New Hampshire has officially passed 3,000 cases of COVID-19, as well as 133 confirmed deaths, but in a positive sign the percentage of tests that come out positive continues to decline.
Through Sunday, the Department of Health and Human Services says 3,071 cases of COVID-19 have diagnosed in New Hampshire. About 4% of those have been fatal, almost all involving people over 60, often in residential or assisted-living facilities, and about 40% of cases have recovered.
The number of tests has risen over the past two weeks with at least 1,200 done each day last week. Along with increased testing the percentage of positives has declined to 10%, the level that the World Health Organization considers sufficient to contain an outbreak.
Since testing ramped up on April 22, the three-day average of cases that are positive has fallen from 13% to 7%.
As of Sunday, there have been 237 positive cases in Merrimack County, 53 of them in Concord.