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Friday’s COVID update from the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) includes 1,107 new cases and 13 new deaths.
The recently reported deaths bring the state’s total to 6,737 during the pandemic. Of the total deaths, 63% (4,237) were residents in long-term care, including six of the most recent 13 deaths.
As of March 10, the state reported that 1,163,483 people had received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, while 660,019 people had completed both doses of the vaccine that are needed for the maximum effect of the vaccines.
MDH has a public dashboard to track the progress of the vaccine in Minnesota and you can view it here.
hospitalization
As of March 11, the number of people with COVID-19 hospitalized in Minnesota was 240, up from 236 reported on Thursday.
Of those hospitalized, 66 are in intensive care (up from 63) and 174 are receiving non-ICU treatment (up from 173).
Test rates and positivity
The 1,107 positive results in Friday’s update were from 35,085 completed tests, creating a daily test positivity rate of 3.15%.
According to Johns Hopkins University, the test positive rate in Minnesota over the past seven days is 3.15%.
The World Health Organization recommends that a positive percentage rate (total of positives divided by total tests completed) of less than 5% for at least two weeks be required for the safe reopening of the economy. That 5% threshold is based on the total positives divided by the total tests.
Coronavirus in Minnesota by numbers
- Total tests: 7,697,306 (increasing from 7,663,467)
- Tested persons: 3,539,470 (of the 3,537,474)
- People with at least 1 shot vaccine: 1,163,483 (increasing from 1,129,967)
- People with 2 vaccines: 660,019 (of the 642,701)
- Positive cases: 495,208 (from 494,106)
- Deaths: 6,737 – 369 of which are “probable *” (increasing from 6,724)
- Patients who no longer require isolation: 480,133 (from 479,713)
* Probable deaths are patients who died after a positive test using the COVID-19 antigen test, which is thought to be less accurate than the more common PCR test.