{"id":34095,"date":"2021-04-15T15:53:39","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T22:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=34095"},"modified":"2021-04-16T15:54:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T22:54:05","slug":"nh-governor-will-let-mask-mandate-expire-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=34095","title":{"rendered":"NH governor will let mask mandate expire on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Hampshire Gov.\u00a0Chris Sununu\u00a0(R) said Thursday he will not renew the state&#8217;s mask mandate, and will let it expire on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll continue to work with public health to encourage social distancing and wearing of masks when appropriate. That will not change whatsoever. What does change is the government&#8217;s imposed requirement to do so,&#8221; Sununu said during a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>New Hampshire is the first state in New England to lift its mask mandate, which has been in place since November.<\/p>\n<p>Sununu said that private businesses, cities, towns, and organizations may continue to keep mask mandates in place.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone over the age of 16 in New Hampshire is eligible to receive a vaccine, and 70 percent of residents over age 65 have gotten a shot. People from out of state will be able to get vaccinated on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Next up:\u00a0<\/strong>All remaining restrictions on businesses will be lifted May 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Hampshire Gov.\u00a0Chris Sununu\u00a0(R) said Thursday&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34096,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34095\/revisions\/34096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}