COVID-19 numbers rise again in South Dakota

Final Friday, Monument Well being celebrated having no COVID-19 sufferers of their system for the primary time because the begin of the pandemic. They knew that wouldn’t be everlasting. This week, the South Dakota Division of Well being says there are actually six COVID sufferers in Monument Hospital Speedy Metropolis, one within the ICU.

South Dakota is reporting a complete of 453 new instances this week. 63 of these are from Pennington County, with 16 every in Lawrence and Oglala Lakota Counties and 15 in Meade County. The variety of energetic instances within the state goes up by one other 288 this week, to 1,054, going over 1,000 for the primary time because the finish of March. The variety of hospitalized COVID sufferers is up eight this week to 33. There are two extra deaths on this week’s report. Wyoming says they’ve a complete of 286 new instances this week, reporting their numbers on Tuesday. There have been 22 new instances in Sheridan County and 14 in Campbell County. Wyoming’s tally of lab-confirmed energetic instances is up 35 to 117, whereas the variety of COVID sufferers within the hospital there drops down to simply 4 statewide. There are three extra deaths on this week’s report, one from Criminal County.