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