Roseau County has 74 Positive Cases; with 0 new cases reported today; 7 ACTIVE Cases; 67 having recovered (out of isolation).
The World Health Organization says that a 14-day positive test rate of below 5 percent is the key to keeping businesses open.
Thursday’s update includes 1,047 new positive tests for the coronavirus, nine of which have been removed for an official count of 1,038 new cases. Those positive cases are the result of 7,534 people tested, creating a 24-hour reporting period test positivity rate of 13.78%.
The positive test rate is lower from the perspective when the number of individuals producing positive tests (1,038) divided by total completed tests (13,926). In that case, the positivity rate is 7.45%.
The “tests completed” number is always higher than the “people tested” metric because some people get tested multiple times and those who test positive are only counted once, so it produces a less accurate positivity rate.
The test positivity rate over a 7-day average, based on total number of people tested, according to Johns Hopkins University, was 8.15% as of Wednesday. Anything over 5% can indicate more aggressive community transmission, MDH officials say.
Hospitalized patients dropped from 297 in Wednesday’s report to 272 Thursday, though the number of COVID-19 patients in the ICU increased from 135 to 138.
Statewide:
- Total tests: 1,540,107 (up from 1,525,555)
- People tested: 1,158,388 (up from 1,150,854)
- Positive cases: 78,123 (up from 77,085)
- Deaths: 1,837 (up from 1,830)
- Currently hospitalized: 272 (down from 297)
- Patients in intensive care: 138 (up from 135)
- Patients no longer requiring isolation: 70,175 (up from 69,521)
Updated September 3, 2020
Updated daily at 11 a.m., with data current as of 4 p.m. the previous day.
Last modified: 09/03/2020
