The variety of North Dakota counties thought of at medium or excessive threat for coronavirus transmission dropped considerably over the previous week, as COVID-19 instances continued to tail off.
The state’s coronavirus dashboard, up to date weekly on Fridays, confirmed 1,401 new COVID-19 instances previously seven days, down 28% p.c from the current peak three weeks in the past.
There are seven counties together with Morton at excessive threat, down from 16 per week in the past, and 21 counties together with Burleigh at medium threat, down from 28. The quantity at low threat went from 9 to 25.
County threat ranges as decided by the federal Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention may be discovered at https://bit.ly/3AfSY2A. The CDC recommends that individuals in high-risk areas put on a masks indoors in public and on public transportation, no matter vaccination standing. Folks in medium-risk areas who’ve situations that make them susceptible to extreme sickness or are round others with such situations ought to put on masks, in line with federal steering.
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There have been 92 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19 in North Dakota over the previous week, down from 114 the earlier week. Coronavirus sufferers make up 4.9% of occupied inpatient beds and seven.3% of intensive care unit beds statewide, secure in comparison with final week.
Federal knowledge confirmed one new virus-related loss of life in North Dakota previously week, elevating the state’s pandemic whole to 2,330. County-level loss of life knowledge is just not accessible. There have been 263,918 confirmed COVID-19 instances in North Dakota throughout the pandemic that started in March 2020.
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Federal knowledge exhibits that North Dakota continues to have a number of the lowest COVID-19 vaccination charges within the nation: 67.3% of adults within the state are totally vaccinated, with the speed for all vaccine-eligible individuals — age 5 and older — at 60.9%. The nationwide averages are 77.3% and 71.6%, respectively.
COVID-19 booster pictures are really helpful for individuals 12 and older. North Dakota’s first booster price is 46.5%, in comparison with 50% nationally. Second booster doses can be found for 3 important teams of individuals:
- All adults 50 years and older.
- All individuals 12 years or older who’re reasonably to severely immunocompromised.
- Adults 18 to 49 years who obtained two doses of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine.
State Well being Division steering and assets for companies is at https://bit.ly/3w0DpKj.
Go to https://www.ndvax.org or https://bit.ly/3N3IMxb or name 866-207-2880 to see the place COVID-19 vaccine is on the market. Data on free public testing and free check kits is at well being.nd.gov/covidtesting. Extra detailed pandemic data is at www.well being.nd.gov/coronavirus and https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html.