Thursday, October 22, 2020 - 11:15 am Categories:
COVID-19

BY THE NUMBERS

8,378 – Total Tests from Yesterday*

790,738 – Total tests completed since the pandemic began

1,038 – Positive Individuals from Yesterday*****

35,052 – Total positive individuals since the pandemic began

A private lab notified us that 137 individuals reported as positive between October 12-14 were inconclusive. The individuals have been notified and the positive results were removed from our total. 

13.09% – Daily Positivity Rate**

6,350 Total Active Cases

+376 Individuals from yesterday

503 – Individuals Recovered from Yesterday (402 with a recovery date of yesterday****)

28,271 – Total recovered since the pandemic began

156 – Curren­tly Hospitalized

+4 - Individuals from yesterday

9 – New Deaths*** (431 total deaths since the pandemic began)

INDIVIDUALS WHO DIED WITH COVID-19

  • Man in his 60s from Cass County with underlying health conditions.
  • Woman in her 60s from Grand Forks County with underlying health conditions.
  • Man in his 70s from Grand Forks County with underlying health conditions.
  • Woman in her 70s from Grant County with underlying health conditions
  • Man in his 70s from LaMoure County with underlying health conditions.
  • Man in his 50s from LaMoure County with underlying health conditions.
  • Man in his 80s from Morton County with underlying health conditions.
  • Man in his 70s from Richland County with underlying health conditions.
  • Man in his 90s from Ward County with underlying health conditions.

COUNTIES WITH NEW POSITIVE CASES REPORTED TODAY

  • Adams County - 3
  • Barnes County - 21
  • Benson County – 7
  • Bottineau County – 2
  • Bowman County – 2
  • Burke County - 5
  • Burleigh County - 209
  • Cass County – 280
  • Cavalier County - 1
  • Dickey County – 5
  • Dunn County - 1
  • Eddy County – 2
  • Emmons County - 2
  • Foster County – 2
  • Grand Forks County – 59
  • Grant County - 2
  • Griggs County - 4
  • Hettinger County – 1
  • Kidder County - 3
  • LaMoure County - 11
  • Logan County – 2
  • McHenry County – 8
  • McIntosh County - 2
  • McKenzie County – 24
  • McLean County - 14
  • Mercer County - 8
  • Morton County – 62
  • Mountrail County – 19
  • Nelson County - 1
  • Oliver County – 2
  • Pembina County - 4
  • Pierce County - 4
  • Ramsey County – 12
  • Ransom County – 15
  • Renville County - 2
  • Richland County – 15
  • Rolette County – 14
  • Sargent County – 4
  • Sioux County - 15
  • Stark County – 6
  • Steele County - 2
  • Stutsman County – 15
  • Towner County – 1
  • Traill County - 15
  • Walsh County - 20
  • Ward County – 95
  • Wells County - 6
  • Williams County – 29

* 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.

**Individuals who tested positive divided by the total number of people tested who have not previously tested positive (susceptible encounters).

*** Number of individuals who tested positive and died from any cause while infected with COVID-19. There is a lag in the time deaths are reported to the NDDoH.
**** The actual date individuals are officially out of isolation and no longer contagious.

*****Totals may be adjusted as individuals are found to live out of state, in another county, or as other information is found during investigation.