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Friday’s Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) COVID update includes 1,107 new cases and 13 new deaths.
The recently reported deaths bring the state total to 6,737 during the course of the pandemic. Of the total deaths, 63% (4,237) were residents of long-term care facilities, including six of the last 13 deaths.
As of March 10, the state has reported that 1,163,483 people have received at least 1 dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, while 660,019 people have completed the two doses of the vaccine necessary for the maximum effect of the vaccines.
MDH has a public panel to monitor the progress of the vaccine in Minnesota, and you can view it here.
Hospitalizations
As of March 11, the number of people with COVID-19 hospitalized in Minnesota was 240, up from 236 on Thursday.
Of those hospitalized, 66 are in intensive care (out of 63) and 174 are receiving treatment outside the ICU (out of 173).
Test rates and positivity
The 1,107 positive results in Friday’s update were 35,085 tests completed, creating a daily test positivity rate of 3.15%.
According to Johns Hopkins University, the Minnesota test positivity rate for the past seven days is 3.15%.
The World Health Organization recommends that a percentage rate of positivity (total positives divided by total tests completed) of less than 5% for at least two weeks is necessary to reopen the economy safely. This limit of 5% is based on the total of positives divided by the total of tests.
Coronavirus in Minnesota in numbers
- Total tests: 7,697,306 (over 7,663,467)
- People tested: 3,539,470 (over 3,537,474)
- People with at least 1 vaccine injection: 1,163,483 (over 1,129,967)
- People with 2 vaccines: 660,019 (over 642,701)
- Positive cases: 495,208 (above 494,106)
- Deaths: 6,737 – 369 of which are “probable *” (over 6,724)
- Patients who no longer need isolation: 480,133 (out of 479,713)
* Probable deaths are patients who died after a positive test using the COVID-19 antigen test, which is considered less accurate than the most common PCR test.