One COVID-19 death reported in Kandiyohi County in the current Minnesota update

WILLMAR

— The variety of COVID-19 circumstances in west central Minnesota counties held regular within the final week, in line with the

weekly scenario replace

launched Wednesday by the Minnesota Division of Well being.

West central Minnesota has, on common, hovered between 100 and 200 circumstances per 100,000 folks within the final a number of months, which is barely above the typical of 92.2 circumstances per 100,000 folks statewide. The 11 counties tracked by the West Central Tribune reported 337 new circumstances of COVID-19 between Nov. 13 and Nov. 19, up simply three from the week prior.

One loss of life associated to COVID-19 was reported in Kandiyohi County. The state’s present complete variety of deaths attributed to COVID-19 is now 13,663, a rise of 53 from final week’s report.

Because it has been since December 2021, the dominant COVID-19 variant affecting Minnesotans is the Omicron variant.

The state’s report of latest circumstances is an undercount, as a result of at-home check outcomes are usually not included.

In west central Minnesota, 12 folks from space counties have been hospitalized sooner or later between Nov. 13 and Nov. 19 — 9 in Stearns County and one every in Pope, Meeker, and Swift counties.

In all circumstances, the numbers within the updates are preliminary and will change as extra info is acquired.

New circumstances reported final week:

• Large Stone, 9
• Chippewa, 6
• Kandiyohi, 27
• Lac qui Parle, 6
• Meeker, 19
• Pope, 19
• Redwood, 15
• Renville, 10
• Stearns, 207
• Swift, 12
• Yellow Medication, 7

The state’s cumulative variety of circumstances is 1,707,968, together with reinfections.
Individuals who have examined constructive for COVID-19 once more greater than 90 days after an preliminary lab-confirmed constructive check are thought-about to have a reinfection.

As of this week’s report, 4,000,475 Minnesotans, 71.9%, have acquired at the very least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, and three,761,171 of the state’s inhabitants, 67.6%, have accomplished the vaccine collection. The whole collection could possibly be one, two, or three doses relying on the individual’s age and which vaccine they acquired. It doesn’t embrace booster doses.

The variety of folks listed as being up-to-date with their vaccines, which means they’ve had booster pictures, is 1,004,302, which is eighteen.1% of Minnesotans. For age 6 months by 4 years, up-to-date means a whole main collection. For folks over 5, up-to-date means a whole main collection and a bivalent booster dose when due.

In June 2022, the division started offering a weekly replace, changing the each day updates that started in spring 2020. The updates are launched every Thursday at 11 a.m. and embrace knowledge acquired as of 4 a.m. the previous Tuesday.

When the report refers to numbers from final week, it refers to info gathered from Sunday by Saturday the week earlier than the knowledge is launched. Because of the Thanksgiving vacation the information replace was posted Wednesday, Nov. 23, nevertheless knowledge continues to be as of 4 a.m. on the Tuesday prior, until famous in any other case.