Roseau County has 1640 Positive Cases; with 1 new cases reported today; and 17 accumulated deaths.
Sunday’s COVID update from the Minnesota Department of Health includes 32 new deaths and 1,181 new cases.
The newly reported deaths bring the state’s total to 6,095 over the course of the pandemic. Of those deaths, (63.5%) (3,875) were residents of long-term care, including 22 of the 32 reported Sunday.
Meanwhile, through Jan. 21, the state reported that 247,415 people have received at least 1 dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, while 63,185 people have completed both doses of vaccine that are required for the vaccines’ full effect.
The health department has launched a public dashboard to track vaccine distribution throughout Minnesota, and you can view it here.
The B.1.1.7. variant of coronavirus that was first discovered in the United Kingdom has been found in Minnesota, with health officials so far confirming five cases of the variant in the Twin Cities metro area, but none further have been announced since early January.
The 1,181 positive results in Sunday’s update were from a total of 34,874 completed tests, creating a daily test positivity rate of 3.38%.
According to Johns Hopkins University, Minnesota’s test positivity rate over the past seven days is 4.66%, making it one of the lowest rates in the country.
The World Health Organization recommends that a percent positive rate (total positives divided by total completed tests) of below 5% for at least two weeks is necessary to safely reopen the economy. That 5% threshold is based on total positives divided by total tests.
Coronavirus in Minnesota by the numbers
- Total tests: 6,367,721 (up from 6,332,647)
- People tested: 3,206,509 (up from 3,193,783)
- Positive cases: 454,989 (up from 453,808)
- Deaths: 6,095 – 231 of which are “probable*” (up from 6,063)
- Patients no longer requiring isolation: 437,827 (up from 436,544)
Updated daily with data current as of 4 p.m. the previous day.
Last modified: 01/25/2021
