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According to the state health department’s coronavirus dashboard, 50 new individuals from 15 counties have tested positive for COVID-19 in North Dakota, bringing the new statewide positive total to 101,701.

These results were from a pool of 695 tests for a daily positive rate of 8.58 percent.

37 of those positives were PCR tests, and 13 were antigen tests.

The cases broken down by county are:

According to the state health department’s COVID-19 vaccine dashboard, North Dakota has administered just over 340,000 doses of vaccine for the novel coronavirus.

This amounts to over 40,000 doses administered over the past week.

Just under 330,000 official doses have been delivered to North Dakota. Some vials of vaccine had more doses in them than originally estimated.

According to the state health department’s coronavirus dashboard, 49 new individuals from 11 counties have tested positive for COVID-19 in North Dakota, bringing the new statewide positive total to 101,651.

These results were from a pool of 801 tests for a daily positive rate of 7.26 percent.

39 of those positives were PCR tests, and 10 were antigen tests.

The cases broken down by county are:

The state health department has confirmed one more death related to COVID-19, bringing the statewide death toll to 1,461.

Details about the patient will be released Monday.

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. 

COVID-19 vaccine will be offered to the general public in North Dakota beginning on March 29.

Molly Howell is immunization director at the North Dakota Department of Health. Howell says North Dakotans aged 16 and 17 will only be offered Pfizer vaccine, but any adult 18 and over will be eligible to receive any vaccine. She says the change in vaccine eligibility is not because residents in earlier priority groups have all been vaccinated.

The state health department has confirmed one more death related to COVID-19, bringing the statewide death toll to 1,460.

The patient was a man in his 80s from Nelson 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.