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Note: The numbers displayed on Monday, April 5 were lower due to the holiday weekend, and the cases displayed on Tuesday, April 6 are higher because they include more data days.
Tuesday’s update to COVID from the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) includes 3,014 new cases and four new deaths.
The four new deaths increase the state’s death toll to 6,889 during the pandemic. Of the total deaths, 62.4% (4,294) were residents of long-term care.
As of April 4, the state reported that 1,841,585 people had received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, while 1,192,051 people had completed their vaccine series.
Forty-two percent of Minnesotas over the age of 16 received at least one stroke.
MDH has a public dashboard to track the progress of the vaccine in Minnesota and you can view it here.
hospitalization
As of April 5, the number of people with COVID-19 hospitalized in Minnesota was 497, up from 448 reported Monday.
Of those hospitalized until April 5, 114 people were in intensive care (up from 110 reported months) and 383 received non-ICU treatment (up from 338).
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 5: 497 (383 non-ICU, 114 ICU)
Test rates and positivity
The 3,014 positive results in Tuesday’s update were from 29,635 completed tests, creating a two-day test positivity rate of 10.17%.
According to Johns Hopkins University, the test positivity rate in Minnesota over the past seven days is 6.68%.
The World Health Organization recommends that a positive percentage rate (total positive divided by total completed tests) 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: 8,405,105 (of 8,375,597)
- Tested persons: 3,751,477 (from 3,740,840)
- People with at least 1 shot vaccine: 1,841,585 (increasing from 1,808,949)
- People who have finished. series of vaccines: 1,192,051 (of the 1,164,187)
- Positive cases: 530,622 (from 527,650)
- Deaths: 6,889 – 380 of which are “probable *” (increasing from 6,885)
- Patients who no longer need isolation: 508,094 (from 504,712)
* 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.