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4 deaths, 289 cases of COVID-19 confirmed

ND Dept of Health

The state health department has confirmed 289 new cases of COVID-19, and four related deaths.

The state health department has confirmed four more deaths related to COVID-19, bringing the statewide death toll to 1,560.

Deaths are reported to the state health department by facilities or by official death record, and can take up to ten days to be confirmed.

According to the state health department’s coronavirus dashboard, 289 individuals from 40 counties have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the new statewide positive total to 116,305.

These results were from a pool of 4,988 tests for a daily positive rate of 6.15 percent.

201 of those positives were PCR tests, and 88 were antigen tests.

The cases broken down by county are:

2,200,035 total tests have been administered for the novel coronavirus. 466,768 unique individuals have been tested.

62 people are currently hospitalized due to COVID-19.

Since yesterday 226 individuals have been confirmed as recovered, bringing the recovered total to 112,702. This leaves 2,043 active confirmed cases.

Danielle Webster has been delivering news to Prairie Public's statewide radio audience since 2006. She is Prairie Public's local host of All Things Considered, hosting newscasts on weekday afternoons from 3-6pm. You can contact Danielle at dwebster@prairiepublic.org.
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