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The COVID-19 Monday update from the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) includes 1,292 new cases and six new deaths.
New deaths increase the state’s death toll to 7,026 during the pandemic. Of the total deaths, 61.7% (4,336) were residents of long-term care.
As of April 17, the state reported that 2,292,756 people had received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, while 1,625,800 people had completed their series of vaccines.
Fifty-two percent of 16-year-olds in Minnesota received at least one stroke, while 85% of the population over the age of 65 had at least one dose of vaccine. In general, 41% 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 17, the number of people with COVID-19 hospitalized in Minnesota was 686, down from 671 reported Friday.
Of those hospitalized, 171 people were in intensive care (compared to 165 were reported on Friday) and 515 were receiving non-ICU treatment (compared to 506).
This is how the hospitalizations in Minnesota have progressed since March 7.
- 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 14: 699 (531 non-ICU, 168 ICU)
- April 17: 686 (515 non-ICU, 171 ICU)
Test rates and positivity
The 1,292 positive results from Monday’s update were from 23,297 completed tests, creating a test positivity rate of 5.54%.
According to Johns Hopkins University, the Minnesota test positive for the past seven days is 7.01%.
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 needed to safely reopen the economy. That 5% threshold is based on the total positives divided by the total tests.
Coronavirus in Minnesota by numbers
- Total tests: 8,866,081 (of 8,882,898)
- Tested persons: 3,911,831 (of the 3,902,960)
- People with at least 1 shot vaccine: 2,292,756 (of 2,274,426)
- People who have finished. series of vaccines: 1,625,800 (of the 1,600,887)
- Positive cases: 557,665 (of the 556,381)
- Deaths: 7,026 – 386 of which are “probable *” (increasing from 7,020)
- Patients who no longer need isolation: 532,563 (of the 530,121)
* 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.