Friday, October 16, 2020 - 11:08 am Categories:
COVID-19

BY THE NUMBERS

9,226 – Total Tests from Yesterday*

747,239 – Total tests completed since the pandemic began

877 – Positive Individuals from Yesterday*****

30,517 – Total positive individuals since the pandemic began

10.01% – Daily Positivity Rate**

5,247 Total Active Cases

+300 Individuals from yesterday

546 – Individuals Recovered from Yesterday (465 with a recovery date of yesterday****)

24,882 – Total recovered since the pandemic began

148 – Curren­tly Hospitalized

+10 - Individuals from yesterday

18 – New Deaths*** (388 total deaths since the pandemic began)

INDIVIDUALS WHO DIED WITH COVID-19

  • Woman in her 80s from Bottineau County with underlying health conditions.
  • Woman in her 90s from Bottineau County with underlying health conditions.
  • Man in his 80s from Burleigh County with underlying health conditions.
  • Woman in her 90s from Burleigh County with underlying health conditions.
  • Woman in her 70s from Burleigh County with underlying health conditions.
  • Man in his 60s from Burleigh County with underlying health conditions.
  • Man in his 70s from Cass County with underlying health conditions.
  • Man in his 80s from Grand Forks County with underlying health conditions.
  • Man in his 90s from McHenry County with underlying health conditions.
  • Man in his 90s from McHenry County with underlying health conditions.
  • Woman in her 90s from McLean County with underlying health conditions.
  • Man in his 90s from Morton County with underlying health conditions.
  • Man in his 90s from Stark County with underlying health conditions.
  • Woman in her 70s from Stark County with underlying health conditions.
  • Woman in her 80s from Stark County with underlying health conditions.
  • Women in her 60s from Towner County with underlying health conditions.
  • Woman in her 90s from Ward County with underlying health conditions.
  •  Woman in her 80s from Williams County with underlying health conditions.

COUNTIES WITH NEW POSITIVE CASES REPORTED TODAY

  • Barnes County - 4
  • Benson County – 15
  • Billings County - 1
  • Bottineau County – 3
  • Bowman County – 2
  • Burleigh County - 108
  • Cass County – 223
  • Divide County - 3
  • Dunn County – 3
  • Eddy County – 3
  • Foster County – 3
  • Grand Forks County – 113
  • Grant County – 1
  • Griggs County - 1
  • Hettinger County – 2
  • Kidder County – 1
  • LaMoure County – 2
  • Logan County – 1
  • McHenry County - 8
  • McKenzie County – 12
  • McLean County - 13
  • Mercer County - 16
  • Morton County – 29
  • Mountrail County – 13
  • Nelson County - 2
  • Oliver County – 4
  • Pembina County - 6
  • Pierce County - 1
  • Ramsey County – 22
  • Ransom County – 5
  • Richland County – 12
  • Rolette County - 6
  • Sargent County – 2
  • Sheridan County - 3
  • Sioux County – 7
  • Slope County - 1
  • Stark County – 26
  • Stutsman County – 21
  • Towner County - 3
  • Traill County - 12
  • Walsh County - 10
  • Ward County – 116
  • Wells County - 3
  • Williams County – 35

* 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.