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Monday’s COVID-19 update from the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) includes 1,120 new cases and four newly reported deaths. .
The death toll in the state is 7,698 since the start of the pandemic. Of the total deaths, 58.8% (4,525) were long-term care residents.
As of August 5, the state reported that 3,199,358 (an increase of about 8,000 from Friday) people had received at least 1 dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, while 3,018,637 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: 44%
- 16-17: 54%
- 18-49: 59%
- 50-64: 73%
- 65+: 91%
- Total population: 58%
54.3% of the total population of Minnesota, including children under 12 who are not eligible for the vaccine, have completed the vaccine series. This rises to 64.2% excluding children under 12. MDH has a public dashboard for tracking vaccination progress in Minnesota, and you can see it here.
Hospitalizations
Until August 6, the number of people with COVID-19 hospitalized in Minnesota was 299 (up from 267 reported on Friday).
Of those hospitalized, 87 people were in intensive care and 212 were receiving non-ICU treatment.
Tests and positivity rate.
The 1,120 positive results in Friday’s update came from 24,784 completed tests, creating a test positivity rate of 4.51%.
According to Johns Hopkins University, Minnesota’s test positivity rate over the past seven days is 5.12%, 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: 10,796,739
- People tested: 4,702,839
- People who have received at least 1 vaccine: 3 199 358
- People who have completed the series of vaccines: 3,018,637
- Positive cases: 618,906 (compared to 616,784)
- Deaths: 7,698 to 424 including “probable *” (compared to 7,694)
- Patients no longer requiring isolation: 604,597
* 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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