FARIBAULT AND MARTIN COUNTIES HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES REPORTS:
9 new laboratory confirmed COVID-19 cases to report.
Martin County: 5 new cases, 0 hospitalized
Ages: 29, 29, 46, 48, 65
Seven prior reported cases currently hospitalized. Ages: 36, 41, 52, 56, 62, 79, 84
TOTAL CONFIMED CASES IN MARTIN COUNTY 504. ACTIVE 118.RECOVERED 374. 12 COVID RELATED DEATHS SO FAR.
FARIBAULT COUNTY HAS 163 CONFIRMED CASES. 4 new cases, 1 hospitalized.
Ages: 23, 33, 64, 67
One case currently hospitalized. Age: 67 .ACTIVE CASES 22.
WATONWAN COUNTY AT LAST REPORT HAS 535 confirmed caasses. 16 ACTIVE. 1 CURRENTLY KNOWN HOSPITALIZED. 515 OUT OF ISOLATION. 4 COVID RELATED DEATHS SO FAR.
THE MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH REPORTS 1,048 NEW CASES . NEW TOTAL CASES 103,826 AND 7 DEATHS -TOTAL NOW 2,080.
Iowa continues to have one of the nation’s highest rates of coronavirus infections, and the state reported 684 new cases and four new deaths on Sunday.
The state said Sunday that as of 10 a.m. there had been 92,545 cases of COVID-19 and 1,381 deaths related to the virus in Iowa since the pandemic began, according to the state’s online virus tracker.
The seven-day rolling average of the positivity rate in Iowa has risen over the past two weeks from 15.34% on Sept. 19 to 18.17% on Saturday, according to an Associated Press analysis of data from Johns Hopkins University. That was the fifth-highest positivity rate in the nation on Saturday.