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Wednesday’s COVID-19 update from the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) includes 1,715 new cases and 16 new deaths.
New deaths increase the state’s death toll to 6,978 during the pandemic. Of the total deaths, 61.9% (4,320) were residents of long-term care.
As of April 12, the state reported that 2,131,904 people had received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, while 1,460,806 people had completed their vaccine series.
Forty-eight percent of 16-year-olds in Minnesota received at least one stroke, while 84% of the 65-year-old population had at least one dose of vaccine. In total, 38% 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 13, the number of people with COVID-19 hospitalized in Minnesota was 681, up from 676 reported Tuesday.
Of those hospitalized, 164 people were in intensive care (compared to 159 reported on Tuesday) and 517 received non-ICU treatment (no changes compared to 517).
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 13: 681 (517 non-ICU, 164 ICU)
Test rates and positivity
The 1,715 positive results from Wednesday’s update were from 24,033 tests completed, creating a test positivity rate of 7.13%.
According to Johns Hopkins University, the test positive rate in Minnesota over the past seven days is 7.32%.
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: 8,665,530 (increasing from 8,641,543)
- Tested persons: 3,844,437 (of 3,835,496)
- People with at least 1 shot vaccine: 2,131,904 (of 2,102,859)
- People who have finished. series of vaccines: 1,460,806 (of the 1,435,236)
- Positive cases: 547,101 (of the 545,404)
- Deaths: 6,978 – 385 of which are “probable *” (increasing from 6,962)
- Patients who no longer need isolation: 522,843 (of the 520,800)
* 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.