Please note that the high number of daily tests and positives reflects 5,600 tests reported to us yesterday that were part of a backlog experienced by the third-party lab.
Also note that the abnormally high fluctuations in active cases, recovered and hospitalized are a result of the system catching up from the software issue experienced on Monday. The system is currently caught up.
BY THE NUMBERS
14,462 – Total Tests from Yesterday*
973,331 – Total tests completed since the pandemic began
1,801 – Positive Individuals from Yesterday*****
57,373 – Total positive individuals since the pandemic began
13.86% – Daily Positivity Rate**
10,421 - Total Active Cases
-1,235 Individuals from Yesterday
3,024 – Individuals Recovered from Yesterday (927 with a recovery date of yesterday****)
48,055 – Total recovered since the pandemic began
294 – Currently Hospitalized
+40 - Individuals from yesterday
11 – New Deaths*** (697 total deaths since the pandemic began)
INDIVIDUALS WHO DIED WITH COVID-19
- Man in his 20s from Benson County.
- Man in his 90s from Cass County.
- Man in his 50s from Cass County.
- Woman in her 90s from Kidder County.
- Man in his 80s from LaMoure County.
- Man in his 80s from Mercer County.
- Woman in her 90s from Morton County.
- Woman in her 90s from Morton County.
- Woman in her 80s from Nelson County.
- Man in his 90s from Ward County.
- Man in his 90s from Williams County.
COUNTIES WITH NEW POSITIVE CASES REPORTED TODAY
- Adams County - 4
- Barnes County - 31
- Benson County – 6
- Bottineau County – 9
- Bowman County - 3
- Burke County - 8
- Burleigh County - 228
- Cass County - 404
- Cavalier County - 10
- Dickey County – 21
- Dunn County – 3
- Eddy County – 6
- Emmons County - 4
- Foster County – 18
- Golden Valley County - 1
- Grand Forks County – 110
- Grant County - 5
- Griggs County - 6
- Hettinger County – 3
- Kidder County - 3
- LaMoure County - 8
- Logan County - 3
- McHenry County – 11
- McIntosh County - 6
- McKenzie County - 10
- McLean County - 17
- Mercer County - 36
- Morton County - 81
- Mountrail County - 15
- Nelson County – 5
- Oliver County - 6
- Pembina County - 12
- Pierce County - 12
- Ramsey County – 25
- Ransom County - 4
- Renville County - 4
- Richland County - 33
- Rolette County – 58
- Sargent County – 7
- Sioux County – 6
- Slope County - 1
- Stark County – 25
- Steele County - 5
- Stutsman County - 128
- Towner County - 8
- Traill County - 36
- Walsh County - 58
- Ward County – 267
- Wells County - 4
- Williams County – 27
* 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.