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The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) Monday’s COVID-19 update includes 1,994 new cases and two new deaths.
New deaths increase the number of deaths in the state to 6,950 during the pandemic. Of the total deaths, 62.4% (4,319) were long-term care residents, including one of the last two deaths.
As of April 10, the state reported that 2,084,657 people have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, while 1,420,328 people have completed their vaccine series.
Forty-seven percent of Minnesota people aged 16 and over have received at least one shot, while 84% of the population aged 65 and over have had at least one dose of vaccine. Overall, 37% of the state’s population has had at least one dose.
MDH has a public bulletin board to track the progress of vaccines in Minnesota and you can see it here.
Hospitalizations
As of April 11, the number of people with COVID-19 hospitalized in Minnesota was 651, which exceeds 595 on Friday.
Of those hospitalized, 161 people were in intensive care (up to 134 were reported on Thursday) and 490 were receiving treatment without an ICU (up to 461).
The following explains how Minnesota’s hospital admissions have progressed since March 1st.
- March 1: 251 (191 no UCI, 60 UCI)
- March 7: 223 (177 in the UCI, 46 in the UCI)
- March 13: 255 (194 in the ICU, 61 in the ICU)
- March 20: 324 (246 no UCI, 78 UCI)
- March 27: 356 (264 no UCI, 92 UCI)
- April 2: 439 (337 in UCI, 112 UCI)
- April 8: 595 (461 in UCI, 134 UCI)
- April 11: 651 (490 in UCI, 161 UCI)
Test rates and positivity
The 1,994 positive results of Monday’s update were 24,001 completed tests, which generated a test positivity rate of 8.3%.
According to Johns Hopkins University, the Minnesota test positivity rate over the past seven days is 7.07%.
The World Health Organization recommends that a percentage of positive percentages (divided by the total number of tests completed) below 5% be needed for at least two weeks to reopen the economy safely. This 5% threshold is based on the total positives divided by the total tests.
Coronavirus in Minnesota by the numbers
- Total tests: 8,626,261 (to 8,602,029)
- Tested people: 3,830,249 (to 3,820,370)
- People with at least 1 vaccine: 2,084,657 (up to 3,050,888)
- People who have completed it. series of vaccines: 1,420,328 (compared to 1,386,766)
- Positive cases: 544,046 (to 542,053)
- Deaths: 6,959 – 385 of which are “probable *” (up to 6,957)
- Patients who no longer need isolation: 518,658 (compared to 516,427)
* Probable deaths are patients who died after testing positive for the COVID-19 antigen test, which is thought to be less accurate than the more common PCR test.