North Dakota’s weekly depend of recent COVID-19 circumstances surpassed 1,800 for a 3rd consecutive week, however new circumstances in Burleigh and Morton counties dropped considerably.
The state Well being Division’s coronavirus dashboard on Friday confirmed 1,880 confirmed circumstances up to now seven days, up barely from the earlier week. Case numbers have been pushed up this summer time by extremely contagious mutations of the omicron variant of the virus.
There have been 264 new circumstances in Burleigh-Morton, down from 323 the earlier week. It is the lowest complete for the counties in 5 weeks.
Nonetheless, the 2 counties stay within the coronavirus excessive threat class, in keeping with the federal Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention. Thirty of North Dakota’s 57 counties are both at medium or excessive threat, with the opposite 23 counties at low threat. County threat ranges could be discovered at https://bit.ly/3Clifrq.
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Seventy-four individuals have been hospitalized with COVID-19 in North Dakota over the previous week, down from 85 the earlier week. Coronavirus sufferers nonetheless make up a low proportion — about 4.1% of occupied inpatient beds and 5% of intensive care unit beds statewide, although these percentages crept up barely over the week.
Federal knowledge confirmed three new virus-related deaths in North Dakota, elevating the state’s pandemic complete to 2,307. County-level loss of life knowledge isn’t obtainable. There have been 257,331 confirmed COVID-19 circumstances in North Dakota throughout the pandemic that started in March 2020.
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Federal knowledge reveals that North Dakota continues to have a few of the lowest COVID-19 vaccination charges within the nation: 67% of adults within the state are totally vaccinated, with the speed for all vaccine-eligible individuals — age 5 and older — at 60.6%. The nationwide averages are 77.1% and 71.5%, respectively.
COVID-19 booster photographs are really useful for individuals 12 and older. North Dakota’s first booster price is 46.1%, in comparison with 49.9% nationally. Second booster doses can be found for 3 principal 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 accessible. 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.