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Note: The numbers posted on Monday, April 5, were lower due to the holiday weekend, and cases posted on Tuesday, April 6 are higher because it contains multiple days of data.
Tuesday’s COVID update from the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) includes 3,014 new cases and four new deaths.
The four new deaths increase the state’s death toll to 6,889 over the course of the pandemic. Of the total deaths, 62.4% (4,294) were long-term care residents.
Through April 4, the state reported that 1,841,585 people received at least 1 dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, while 1,192,051 people completed their vaccine series.
Forty-two percent of minnesotans ages 16 and older have received at least one injection.
MDH has a public dashboard to track vaccine progress in Minnesota, and you can watch it here.
Hospital admissions
Through April 5, the number of people with COVID-19 hospitalized in Minnesota was 497, which is more than 448 reported Monday.
Of those hospitalized through April 5, 114 were in intensive care (up from 110 reported on Monday) and 383 received non-ICU treatment (versus 338).
Here’s how hospital admissions in Minnesota have progressed since March 1.
- March 1: 251 (191 non-ICU, 60 ICU)
- March 7: 223 (177 non-ICU, 46 ICU)
- March 13: 255 (194 non-ICU, 61 ICU)
- March 20: 324 (246 non-ICU, 78 ICU)
- March 27: 356 (264 non-ICU, 92 ICU)
- Apr. 5: 497 (383 non-ICU, 114 ICU)
Test and positivity rates
The 3,014 positive results in Tuesday’s update came from 29,635 completed tests, creating a two-day test positivity rate of 10.17%.
According to Johns Hopkins University, Minnesota’s positivity rate in the past seven days is 6.68%.
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: 8,405,105 (from 8,375,597)
- People tested: 3,751,477 (up from 3,740,840)
- People with at least 1 vaccine shot: 1,841,585 (from 1,808,949)
- People who have completed. vaccine series: 1,192,051 (higher than 1,164,187)
- Positive cases: 530,622 (from 527,650)
- Deaths: 6,889 – 380 of which “likely *” (up from 6,885)
- Patients who no longer need isolation: 508,094 (from 504,712)
* 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.