In a deadly new update, the state health department has confirmed thirty more deaths related to COVID-19, bringing the statewide death toll to 674.
The patients were:
- Man in his 80s from Burleigh County.
- Man in his 80s from Burleigh County.
- Woman in her 90s from Burleigh County.
- Man in his 80s from Burleigh County.
- Man in his 80s from Burleigh County.
- Woman in her 90s from Burleigh County.
- Woman in her 50s from Burleigh County.
- Man in his 70s from Burleigh County.
- Man in his 80s from Cass County.
- Man in his 90s from Cass County.
- Woman in her 90s from Dickey County.
- Woman in her 80s from Dickey County.
- Woman in her 70s from Dickey County.
- Woman in her 80s from Dickey County.
- Woman in her 90s from Dickey County.
- Man in his 80s from Dickey County.
- Man in his 70s from Morton County.
- Woman in her 70s from Pembina County.
- Woman in her 80s from Rolette County.
- Woman in her 80s from Stutsman County.
- Man in his 60s from Stutsman County.
- Woman in her 90s from Ward County.
- Woman in her 80s from Ward County.
- Man in his 90s from Ward County.
- Woman in her 90s from Ward County.
- Man in his 60s from Ward County.
- Man in his 80s from Ward County.
- Man in his 90s from Ward County.
- Man in his 80s from Ward County.
- Man in his 90s from Ward County.
894 new individuals from 42 counties have also tested positive for COVID-19 in North Dakota, bringing the new statewide positive total to 56,342.
These results were from a pool of 5,217 tests for a daily positive rate of 18.74 percent.
The cases broken down by county are:
· Adams County - 3
· Barnes County - 12
· Benson County – 5
· Bottineau County – 3
· Burke County - 3
· Burleigh County - 135
· Cass County - 162
· Cavalier County - 17
· Dickey County – 3
· Divide County - 4
· Dunn County – 2
· Eddy County - 1
· Foster County – 5
· Grand Forks County – 54
· Grant County – 3
· Hettinger County – 2
· LaMoure County - 2
· Logan County - 1
· McHenry County – 8
· McKenzie County - 12
· McLean County - 18
· Mercer County - 6
· Morton County - 43
· Mountrail County - 19
· Nelson County – 2
· Pembina County - 5
· Pierce County - 5
· Ramsey County – 13
· Ransom County - 15
· Renville County - 1
· Richland County - 12
· Rolette County – 37
· Sargent County – 7
· Sioux County – 8
· Stark County – 34
· Steele County - 5
· Stutsman County - 36
· Towner County - 2
· Traill County - 3
· Walsh County - 13
· Ward County – 140
· Williams County – 33
The state health department is having an issue with its software that compiles data on hospitalizations and recoveries. This story will be updated when those issues are resolved.