Minnesota
Three deaths, 544 cases of COVID-19 reported in west central Minnesota in last week
WILLMAR
— COVID-19 numbers held regular within the west central Minnesota area all through the final week, with 544 new circumstances and three deaths reported within the 11-county area tracked by the West Central Tribune.
The realm noticed 22 fewer complete circumstances than within the earlier week, however two further deaths, based on the
weekly scenario replace
launched Thursday by the Minnesota Division of Well being. Stearns County additionally recorded 277 of the circumstances reported to the state, adopted by Kandiyohi County with 68 circumstances and Meeker County with 44.
In June 2022, the division started offering a weekly replace, changing the day by day updates that started in spring 2020.
The state’s figures are an undercount, as a result of at-home check outcomes are usually not reported to the state.
The updates are launched every Thursday at 11 a.m. and embody knowledge obtained as of 4 a.m. the previous Tuesday. When the report refers to numbers from final week, it refers to data gathered from Sunday by Saturday the week earlier than the knowledge is launched.
In all circumstances, the numbers within the updates are preliminary and will change as extra data is obtained.
Between Aug. 21 and Aug. 27, three deaths have been reported within the space, two in Stearns County and one in Chippewa County.
The state’s present complete variety of deaths attributed to COVID-19 is now at 13,117, a rise of 39 from final week’s report.
New circumstances reported the week of Aug. 21 to Aug. 27 within the 11 counties tracked by the West Central Tribune:
- Massive Stone, 10
- Chippewa, 18
- Kandiyohi, 68
- Lac qui Parle, 20
- Meeker, 44
- Pope, 25
- Redwood, 31
- Renville, 22
- Stearns, 277
- Swift, 13
- Yellow Medication, 16
The state’s cumulative variety of circumstances is now listed at 1,639,213, together with reinfections. That is about 8,400 extra new circumstances within the final week.
Individuals who have examined optimistic for COVID-19 once more greater than 90 days after an preliminary lab-confirmed optimistic check are thought of to have a reinfection.
The state additionally experiences day by day vaccine administration numbers. As of Aug. 31, 3,980,792 Minnesotans have obtained at the least one dose and three,752,581 have accomplished the vaccine collection statewide.
The variety of individuals listed as being up-to-date with their vaccines, which means they’ve had booster pictures, is 1,793,727.
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