The state health department has confirmed four more death related to COVID-19, bringing the statewide death toll to 1,426.
The patients were:
· Woman in her?80s from Cavalier County.?
· Man in his 80s from Grand Forks County.?
· Man in his 70s from Nelson County.
· Woman in her 80s from Stutsman 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.
According to the state health department’s coronavirus dashboard, 91 new individuals from 23 counties have tested positive for COVID-19 in North Dakota, bringing the new statewide positive total to 98,095.
These results were from a pool of 6,770 tests for a daily positive rate of 1.74 percent.
58 of those positives were PCR tests, and 33 were antigen tests.
The cases broken down by county are:
· Adams County – 2
· Bottineau County – 2
· Bowman County – 1
· Burke County – 2
· Burleigh County – 20
· Cass County – 8
· Eddy County – 1
· Grand Forks County – 9
· McHenry County – 2
· McKenzie County – 2
· McLean County – 1
· Mercer County – 1
· Morton County – 10
· Pembina County – 2
· Ramsey County – 1
· Ransom County – 2
· Richland County – 1
· Stark County – 2
· Stutsman County – 1
· Traill County – 3
· Walsh County – 1
· Ward County – 13
· Williams County – 4
1,552,577 total tests have been administered for the novel coronavirus. 396,698 unique individuals have been tested.
33 people are currently hospitalized due to COVID-19.
Since yesterday 114 individuals have been confirmed as recovered, bringing the recovered total to 95,777. This leaves 892 active confirmed cases.
