138 new COVID-19 cases confirmed, two additional deaths

The state health department has confirmed two more deaths related to COVID-19, bringing the statewide death toll to 1,386.

The patients were:

• Man in his 60s from Cass County.
• Man in his 80s from Ward County.

 
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. 

138 new individuals from 30 counties have tested positive for COVID-19 in North Dakota, bringing the new statewide positive total to 96,071.

These results were from a pool of 3,810 tests for a daily positive rate of 4.24 percent.

88 of those positives were PCR tests, and 50 were antigen tests.

The cases broken down by county are:

·        Adams County – 4

·        Barnes County – 1

·        Bottineau County - 1

·        Bowman County – 3

·        Burke County – 1

·        Burleigh County – 16

·        Cass County – 18

·        Dickey County – 2

·        Divide County – 1

·        Eddy County – 1

·        Foster County - 1

·        Grand Forks County – 17

·        Hettinger County – 1

·        McIntosh County - 1

·        McKenzie County – 7

·        Mercer County – 1

·        Morton County – 3

·        Mountrail County – 1

·        Pembina County – 1

·        Ramsey County - 4

·        Renville County – 1

·        Richland County – 10

·        Rolette County – 2

·        Sargent County - 2

·        Stark County – 2

·        Stutsman County - 1

·        Traill County – 2

·        Walsh County – 3

·        Ward County – 20

·        Williams County – 10

1,458,437 total tests have been administered for the novel coronavirus. 388,505 unique individuals have been tested. 

88 people are currently hospitalized due to COVID-19.

Since yesterday 220 individuals have been confirmed as recovered, bringing the recovered total to 93,451. This leaves 1,234 active confirmed cases.