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Note: The numbers posted on Monday, April 5 were lower due to the holiday weekend, and the cases posted on Tuesday, April 6 are higher because it includes multi-day data.
Tuesday’s COVID update from the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) contains 3,014 new cases and four new deaths.
The four new deaths increase the death toll from the state to 6,889 in the course of the pandemic. Of the total deaths, 62.4% (4,294) were residents of long-term care.
As of April 4, the state reported that 1,841,585 people had received at least 1 dose of COVID-19 vaccine, while 1,192,051 people had completed their vaccination series.
Forty-two percent of Minnesotans 16 years and older received at least one shot.
MDH has a public dashboard to track vaccine progress in Minnesota, and you can see it here.
Hospitalizations
As of April 5, the number of people with COVID-19 hospitalized in Minnesota was 497, which is higher than 448 reported Monday.
Of those hospitalized until April 5, 114 people were in intensive care (compared to 110 on Monday) and 383 received non-ICU treatment (compared to 338).
Here’s how the surveys in Minnesota have progressed since March 1st.
- 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)
- April 5: 497 (383 non-ICU, 114 ICU)
Test and positivity rates
The 3,014 positive results in Tuesday’s update were 29,635 completed tests, resulting in a two-day test positivity rate of 10.17%.
According to Johns Hopkins University, Minnesota’s positivity rate over the past seven days is 6.68%.
The World Health Organization recommends that a percentage positive rate (total positive divided by total completed tests) of at least two weeks below 5% is needed to safely reopen the economy. The 5% threshold is based on total positives, divided by total tests.
Coronavirus in Minnesota by Numbers
- Total tests: 8,405,105 (higher than 8,375,597)
- People tested: 3 751 477 (from 3,740,840)
- People shot with at least 1 vaccination: 1 841 585 (versus 1 808 949)
- People who have completed. vaccine range: 1,192,051 (compared to 1,164,187)
- Positive cases: 530 622 (from 527 650)
- Deaths: 6 889 – of which 380 are “probably *” (compared to 6 885)
- Patients who no longer need isolation: 508,094 (from 504 712)
* Probable deaths are patients who died after testing positive using the COVID-19 antigen test, which is thought to be less accurate than the more common PCR test.