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Sunday’s COVID update from the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) includes 901 new cases and 10 new deaths.
The newly reported deaths bring the state’s total to 6,299 during the pandemic. Of those deaths, 63% (3,971) were long-term care residents, including 5 of 10 reported Sunday.
As of February 5, the state reported that 554,102 people had received at least 1 dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine while 156,638 people had completed the two doses of vaccine needed for the vaccines to have full effect.
MDH has a public dashboard for tracking vaccine progress in Minnesota, and you can view it here.
Two new variants of the coronavirus have been confirmed in Minnesota, including what was the first known case of the Brazil P.1 variant in the United States. This case concerns a Minnesotan who recently visited Brazil. There are 8 confirmed cases of variant B.1.1.7. The two new strains are believed to be more transmissible.
Hospitalizations
Hospitalization numbers are not updated on weekends.
Test and positivity rate
The 901 positive results in Sunday’s update came from a total of 27,922 completed tests, creating a daily test positivity rate of 3.22%.
According to Johns Hopkins University, Minnesota’s test positivity rate over the past seven days is 3.53%, making it one of the lowest rates in the country.
The World Health Organization recommends that a percentage positive rate (total positives divided by total tests completed) of less than 5% for at least two weeks is necessary to safely reopen the economy. 5% is based on total positives divided by total tests.
Coronavirus in Minnesota in figures
- Total tests: 6,780,024 (against 6,751,744)
- People tested: 3,314,427 (against 3,305,989)
- People with at least 1 vaccinated vaccine: 554,102 (against 525,236)
- People who have received 2 vaccines: 156,638 (against 147,321)
- Positive cases: 468,118 (against 467,217)
- Deaths: 6,299 – 261 are “probable *” (compared to 6,289)
- Patients no longer requiring isolation: 453,225 (against 452,183)
* Probable deaths are patients who died after testing positive using the COVID-19 antigen test, which is considered less accurate than the more common PCR test.
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