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Tuesday’s COVID-19 update from the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) includes 1,189 new cases and five new deaths.
New deaths increase the state’s death toll to 7,031 during the pandemic. Of the total deaths, 61.7% (4,337) were residents of long-term care.
As of April 17, the state reported that 2,304,975 people had received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, while 1,630,999 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 19, the number of people with COVID-19 hospitalized in Minnesota was 686, up from the 684 reported on Monday.
Of those hospitalized, 193 were in intensive care (up from 172 reported on Monday) and 493 were receiving non-ICU treatment (down from 512).
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 19: 686 (493 non-ICU, 193 ICU)
Test rates and positivity
The 1,189 positive results from Tuesday’s update were from 15,168 completed tests, creating a test positivity rate of 7.83%.
According to Johns Hopkins University, the test positive rate in Minnesota over the past seven days is 6.72%.
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: 8,880,741 (increasing from 8,866,081)
- Tested persons: 3,915,190 (increasing from 3,911,831)
- People with at least 1 shot vaccine: 2,304,975 (of 2,292,756)
- People who have finished. series of vaccines: 1,630,999 (of the 1,625,800)
- Positive cases: 558,850 (of the 557,665)
- Deaths: 7,031 – 386 of which are “probable *” (increasing from 7,026)
- Patients who no longer need isolation: 534,889 (of the 532,563)
* 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.