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COVID-19

Thanks for your patience with the delay as we experienced a network issue this morning. Good news! We’ve refreshed our website dashboard and the daily report to make more data publicly available. Did we remove a number in our listing below that interested you? Check out the website for those numbers and more, including additional county-level data, then click the feedback button on the website to let us know what you think. As with any new technology upgrade, there’s sure to be minor setbacks so we thank you in advance for your patience while we perfect the dashboard with you in mind.

BY THE NUMBERS

4,862 – Total Tests from Yesterday*

406,733 – Total tests completed since the pandemic began

188 – Positive Individuals from Yesterday

           Two individuals from Cass County were from out of state.

8,968 – Total positive individuals since the pandemic began

3.87% – Daily Positivity Rate**

1,209 – Total Active Cases

+40 Individuals from yesterday

87 – Individuals Recovered from Yesterday

7,629 – Total recovered since the pandemic began

49 – Currently Hospitalized

+2 individuals from yesterday

2 – New Deaths*** (130 total deaths since the pandemic began)
INDIVIDUALS WHO DIED WITH COVID-19

  • Woman in her 70s from McLean County with underlying health conditions.
  • Woman in her 90s from Grand Forks County with underlying health conditions.

COUNTIES WITH NEW POSITIVE CASES REPORTED TODAY

  • Adams County – 1
  • Barnes County - 1
  • Benson County – 1
  • Bottineau County - 1
  • Bowman County – 3
  • Burke County - 1
  • Burleigh County - 42
  • Cass County – 36
  • Dunn County - 1
  • Grand Forks County – 21
  • Griggs County – 1
  • Kidder County – 1
  • McHenry County - 1
  • McIntosh County - 1
  • McLean County – 3
  • Morton County – 11
  • Pierce County – 2
  • Ransom County - 2
  • Richland County – 2
  • Rolette County - 3
  • Sioux County – 2
  • Stark County – 16
  • Stutsman County – 1
  • Walsh County - 6
  • Ward County – 20
  • Wells County - 2
  • Williams County – 6

* Note that this does not include individuals from out of state and has been updated to reflect the most recent information discovered after cases were investigated.

**Because the serial tests completed and added to the total number of tests completed can result in new individuals who test positive, the daily positivity rate will be calculated using the total positives for the day by the daily number of tests completed instead of the daily number of unique individuals tested.

*** Number of individuals who tested positive and died from any cause while infected with COVID-19.

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