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The COVID-19 Monday update from the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) includes 1,994 new cases and two new deaths.
New deaths increase the state’s death toll to 6,950 during the pandemic. Of the total deaths, 62.4% (4,319) were residents of long-term care, including one of the last two deaths.
As of April 10, the state reported that 2,084,657 people had received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, while 1,420,328 people had completed their vaccine series.
Forty-seven percent of 16-year-olds in Minnesota received at least one stroke, while 84% of the population over the age of 65 had at least one dose of vaccine. In total, 37% of the state’s population had at least one dose.
MDH has a public dashboard to track the progress of the vaccine in Minnesota and you can view it here.
hospitalization
As of April 11, the number of people with COVID-19 hospitalized in Minnesota was 651, up from 595 reported on Friday.
Of those hospitalized, 161 people were in intensive care (compared to 134 reported on Thursday) and 490 were receiving non-ICU treatment (compared to 461).
This is how Minnesota’s hospital admissions have progressed since March 1st.
- March 1: 251 (191 non-ICU, 60 ICU)
- March 7: 223 (177 non-ICU, 46 ICU)
- March 13: 255 (194 non-ICU, 61 ICU)
- March 20: 324 (246 non-ICU, 78 ICU)
- March 27: 356 (264 non-ICU, 92 ICU)
- April 2: 439 (337 non-ICU, 112 ICU)
- April 8: 595 (461 non-ICU, 134 ICU)
- April 11: 651 (490 non-ICU, 161 ICU)
Test rates and positivity
The 1,994 positive results from Monday’s update were from 24,001 tests completed, creating a test positivity rate of 8.3%.
According to Johns Hopkins University, the test positivity rate in Minnesota over the past seven days is 7.07%.
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: 8,626,261 (increasing from 8,602,029)
- Tested persons: 3,830,249 (increasing from 3,820,370)
- People with at least 1 shot vaccine: 2,084,657 (of 3,050,888)
- People who have finished. series of vaccines: 1,420,328 (of the 1,386,766)
- Positive cases: 544,046 (of the 542,053)
- Deaths: 6,959 – 385 of which are “probable *” (increasing from 6,957)
- Patients who no longer need isolation: 518,658 (of 516,427)
* 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.