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Friday’s COVID update from the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) includes 1,107 new cases and 13 new deaths.
The newly reported deaths bring the state’s total to 6,737 during the pandemic. Of the total deaths, 63% (4,237) were long-term care residents, including six of the last 13 deaths.
As of March 10, the state reported that 1,163,483 people had received at least 1 dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, while 660,019 people had completed the two doses of vaccine necessary for the vaccines to have maximum effect.
MDH has a public dashboard for tracking vaccine progress in Minnesota, and you can view it here.
Hospitalizations
Until March 11, the number of people with COVID-19 hospitalized in Minnesota was 240, up from 236 reported Thursday.
Among those hospitalized, 66 are in intensive care (compared to 63) and 174 receive treatment other than intensive care (compared to 173).
Test and positivity rate
The 1,107 positive results in Friday’s update came from 35,085 completed tests, creating a daily test positivity rate of 3.15%.
According to Johns Hopkins University, Minnesota’s test positivity rate over the past seven days is 3.15%.
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. This 5% cutoff is based on the total positives divided by the total tests.
Coronavirus in Minnesota in figures
- Total tests: 7,697,306 (against 7,663,467)
- People tested: 3,539,470 (against 3,537,474)
- People with at least 1 vaccinated vaccine: 1,163,483 (against 1,129,967)
- People with 2 vaccines: 660,019 (against 642,701)
- Positive cases: 495,208 (instead of 494106)
- Deaths: 6737 – 369 are “probable *” (against 6724)
- Patients no longer requiring isolation: 480 133 (instead of 479,713)
* 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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