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The North Dakota Department of Health reported 10 new deaths from COVID-19 on Tuesday.
The death toll for Burleigh and Morton counties each increased by one, to a total of 276 and 128, respectively. Cass County leads the state in deaths with 283. The death toll from the North Dakota pandemic now stands at 1,990.
The state no longer publicly reports the county, gender, and age range of newly confirmed deaths.
The state also reported 448 new cases of COVID-19 out of 7,139 new tests, for a positivity rate of 7.03%. The number of active positives rose to 2,198 and 330 people were considered cured. On Tuesday, 120 people were hospitalized with COVID-19.
During the pandemic, North Dakota recorded a total of 169,988 COVID-19 cases, with 165,800 recoveries and 6,823 hospitalizations.
The 14-day moving average fell to 5.86%, slightly approaching the state’s target of less than 5%, which it has not reached since mid-August.
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Cases, hospitalizations and deaths have increased since the summer due to the emergence of the highly contagious delta variant of the coronavirus, the dominant strain first identified in North Dakota in late June. The Department of Health said Monday it had detected the first cases of the new omicron variant in the state. The variant was first discovered in southern Africa and was reported on November 24.
Vaccination
North Dakota has one of the lowest COVID-19 vaccination rates in the United States, according to the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Agency The data Tuesday showed that 63.4% of adults in North Dakota are fully immunized.
Federal data differs from state data vaccine dashboard, which is based on reports from the North Dakota Immunization Information System.
Providers who do not receive the COVID-19 vaccine through the state health department – such as the Indian Health Services, Veterans Services, and the Department of Defense – do not necessarily report them. doses they administer to the state system.
The state scoreboard on Monday showed that 58.5% of eligible adults in North Dakota, 36.1% of teens in the 12-18 age group and 8.1% of children ages 5 to 11 years are considered fully immunized.
People can go to ndvax.org or call 866-207-2880 to see where the COVID-19 vaccine is available near them.
The CDC recommends COVID-19 booster shots for all adults. More than 18% of North Dakotas have received a third dose of the vaccine, but the state’s scorecard does not distinguish between the number of people who received a third dose because they are immunocompromised and the number of people with received a general booster dose.
The risk of transmitting the coronavirus is considered substantial or high in all 53 counties in North Dakota except Burke, Kidder, Slope and Steele, according to the CDC COVID-19 Data Tracking Website.
The CDC recommends that people in these risk categories wear masks in indoor public places.
A list of free COVID-19 tests offered by local public health units is at health.nd.gov/covidtesting.
For more information on the coronavirus in North Dakota, visit health.nd.gov/coronavirus. For more information on the variants of the coronavirus, visit cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/transmission/variant.html.
Contact Sam Nelson at 701-250-8264 or [email protected].
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