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Sunday’s COVID update from the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) includes 804 new cases and eight new deaths.
The recently reported deaths bring the state total to 6,483 during the pandemic and include a 30-34 year old person from Hennepin County.
Of the total deaths, 62.6% 4,055 were long-term care residents, including four of the last eight deaths.
As of Feb. 26, the state reported that 878,436 people had received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, while 452,562 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
Hospitalization figures are not updated over the weekend.
As of Feb. 25, the number of people with COVID-19 hospitalized in Minnesota was 263 – down from 265 the day before.
Of those hospitalized, 60 are in intensive care and 203 receive non-ICU treatment.
Test rates and positivity
The 804 positive results in Sunday’s update were from 29,143 completed tests, creating a daily test positivity rate of 2.75%.
According to Johns Hopkins University, the test positive rate in Minnesota over the past seven days is 3.47%.
The World Health Organization recommends that a positive percentage rate (total positive divided by the total number of 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: 7,346,457 (from 7,316,923)
- Tested persons: 3,469,706 (from 3,459,381)
- People with at least 1 shot vaccine: 878,436 (of the 836,735)
- People with 2 vaccines: 452,562 (of the 430,819)
- Positive cases: 484,594 (of the 483,790)
- Deaths: 6,483 – 271 of which are “probable *” (increasing from 6,475)
- Patients who no longer need isolation: 470,819 (from 469,959)
* 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.