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Friday’s COVID-19 update from the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) includes 3,714 new cases and 17 newly reported deaths, 15 occurring in September and two recorded in August 2021 and January 2021.
The death toll in the state is 8,170 since the start of the pandemic. Of the total deaths, 56.9% (4,639) were long-term care residents.
As of September 29, the state reported that 3,403,638 people had received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, while 3,232,465 people had completed the series of vaccines. The percentage of the population of Minnesota who received at least one injection, by age group:
- 12-15: 54%
- 16-17: 59%
- 18-49: 63%
- 50-64: 75%
- 65+: 91%
- Total population: 61.2%
58.1% of the total population of Minnesota, including children under 12 who are not eligible for the vaccine, have completed the series of vaccines. This rises to 68.7% excluding children under 12. MDH has a public dashboard for tracking vaccination progress in Minnesota, and you can view it here.
Hospitalizations
As of September 30, the number of people with COVID-19 hospitalized in Minnesota was 799 (up from 789 reported Thursday). Among those hospitalized, 209 people are in intensive care and 590 in general hospital care.
Here’s how many people are hospitalized based on regional location, although that doesn’t mean every patient has contracted the virus in those specific regions, as they may have been diverted depending on available beds.
- Metro: 107 ICU, 298 non-ICU (yesterday was 109, 280)
- Central: 33 intensive care units, 88 non-ICU (compared to 29, 96)
- Southeast: 28 ICU, 64 non-ICU (was 30, 64)
- Northeast: 16 intensive care units, 51 non-ICU (instead of 17, 52)
- Northwest: 13 ICU, 21 non-ICU (was 11, 21)
- Center-Sud: 7 intensive care units, 34 non-ICU (instead of 7.36)
- Southwest: 1 ICU, 17 non-ICU (was 1, 17)
- West Central: 4 ICU, 17 non-ICU (was 3, 16)
Tests and positivity rate.
The 3,714 positive results in Friday’s update came from 52,318 completed tests, creating a test positivity rate of 7.09%.
According to Johns Hopkins University, Minnesota’s test positivity rate over the past seven days is 7.60%.
The World Health Organization recommends that a percent positive rate (total positives divided by total tests performed) of less than 5% for at least two weeks be necessary to keep the economy open and safe.
The coronavirus in Minnesota in figures
- Total tests: 12,562,842 (against 12,510,372)
- People tested: 5,671,312 (against 5,643,178)
- People who have received at least 1 vaccine: 3,403,638 (compared to 3,398,906)
- People who have completed the series of vaccines: 3,232,465 (compared to 3,227,882)
- Positive cases: 714,790 (compared to 711,094)
- Deaths: 8,170 – 468 of which “probable *” (instead of 8,153)
- Patients no longer requiring isolation: 685,073 (against 683,858)
* 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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