Eight more North Dakotans have passed away with the novel coronavirus, bringing the statewide death toll to 247.
The patients were a man in his 80s, a woman in her 70s and a man in his 90s from Burleigh County; a man in his 80s from Emmons County; a woman in her 90s from Mercer County; a woman in her 90s from McLean County; and a man in his 60s and a woman in her 90s from Morton County. They each had underlying health conditions.
Additionally, 447 new individuals from 40 counties have tested positive for COVID-19 in North Dakota, bringing the new statewide positive total to 21,846.
These results were from a pool of 5,340 tests for a daily positive rate of 8.72 percent.
The cases broken down by county are:
- Barnes County – 5
- Benson County - 2
- Bottineau County – 5
- Bowman County – 1
- Burleigh County - 84
- Cass County – 82
- Dickey County – 2
- Dunn County – 5
- Eddy County - 3
- Emmons County – 3
- Foster County – 1
- Grand Forks County – 33
- Grant County – 4
- Hettinger County - 1
- Kidder County - 3
- LaMoure County – 2
- Logan County – 5
- McHenry County -1
- McIntosh County - 6
- McKenzie County - 8
- McLean County - 12
- Mercer County - 10
- Morton County – 41
- Mountrail County – 2
- Nelson County – 4
- Oliver County - 2
- Pembina County – 4
- Pierce County - 1
- Ramsey County – 3
- Ransom County – 1
- Renville County - 1
- Rolette County – 9
- Sheridan County - 2
- Sioux County - 3
- Stark County – 6
- Steele County - 1
- Stutsman County – 13
- Traill County – 2
- Walsh County - 9
- Ward County – 25
- Williams County – 40
636,374 total tests have been administered for the novel coronavirus. 241,484 unique individuals have been tested.
89 people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19. There have been 859 hospitalizations total.
There have been 17,938 recoveries. This leaves 3,662 active confirmed cases.
