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Friday’s COVID-19 update from the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) includes 249 new cases and three new deaths.
The death toll in the state is 7,635 since the start of the pandemic. Of the total deaths, 58.8% (4,489) were long-term care residents.
As of July 13, the state reported that 3,102,958 people had received at least 1 dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, while 2,953,217 people had completed their series of vaccines.
The percentage of the population of Minnesota who received at least one injection, by age group:
- 12-15: 39%
- 16-17: 51%
- 18-49: 58%
- 50-64: 72%
- 65+: 91%
- Total population: 56%
53.1% of the total population of Minnesota has completed the series of vaccines. MDH has a public dashboard for tracking vaccine progress in Minnesota, and you can see it here.
Hospitalizations
Until July 14, the number of people with COVID-19 hospitalized in Minnesota was 91. Of those hospitalized, 19 people were in intensive care and 72 were receiving non-ICU treatment.
Hospital admissions involving COVID patients in Minnesota fell to 223 on March 7 before rising to 699 on April 14. Since that peak in mid-April, numbers have dropped sharply, dropping to 440 on May 17 and now hovering around 100.
Tests and positivity rate
The 249 positive results in Friday’s update came from 14,837 completed tests, creating a test positivity rate of 1.67%.
According to Johns Hopkins University, Minnesota’s test positivity rate over the past seven days is 1.74%, which increases as the Delta variant spreads, having recently been below 1%.
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 is needed to safely reopen the economy. This 5% cutoff is based on the total number of positives divided by the total number of tests.
The coronavirus in Minnesota in figures
- Total tests: 10,478,668 (against 10,463,856)
- People tested: 4,515,030 (compared to 4,508,321)
- People who have received at least 1 vaccine: 3,102,958 (compared to 3,099,115)
- People who have completed the series of vaccines: 2,953,217 (compared to 2,948,381)
- Positive cases: 607,524 (instead of 607,278)
- Deaths: 7,635 to 422 including “probable *” (compared to 7,632)
- Patients no longer requiring isolation: 598,427 (compared to 598,390)
* 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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