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COVID-19 INFORMATION FOR POLK COUNTY AND THE KROX LISTENING AREA (April 1)

April 1, 2021

The Minnesota Department of Health released its COVID-19 Weekly Report (here) on Thursday. All information is updated through 4 p.m. on Wednesday, March 31 unless noted. Information on Polk County and the KROX listening area was pulled from the report and is below –

	Polk County	Minnesota
Tests	34,399	8,253,622
Positive Cases	3,536	521,667
State Percent Positive Tests**	5.6%	6.5%
Case Rate per 10,000	1,119	944
Deaths	65	6,860
No longer require isolation	3,425	500,351
Open Cases	46	14,456

**Positive number of tests and positivity calculations include only tests reported by labs that report both positive and negative results. Percent positive is the percent of positive tests from the total number of tests by county of residence.

Zip Code	City	Population	Cases	Case Rate per 10,000	New Cases since 3/24
56517	Beltrami	279	19	681	0
56523	Climax	539	53	983	0
56535	Erskine	1,363	105	770	1
56540	Fertile	1,962	203	1,035	1
56542	Fosston	2,829	225	795	1
56556	McIntosh	1,160	130	1,121	4
56568	Nielsville	142	5 or less	NA	NA
56592	Winger	516	38	736	2
56646	Gully	355	29	817	0
56684	Trail	282	42	1,489	0
56716	Crookston	9,416	1,060	1,126	6
56721	East Grand Forks	10,096	1,330	1,317	19
56722	Euclid	386	54	1,399	0
56723	Fisher	970	117	1,206	0
56736	Mentor	903	76	842	0

56750	Red Lake Falls	2,539	253	996	3
56713	Argyle	1,022	101	988	3
56757	Stephen	932	86	923	0
56762	Warren	2,494	265	1,063	6

SCHOOL LEARNING MODEL OPTIONS

Policy Option	14-day Case Rate per 10,000
All in-person	0 to less than 10
Elementary in-person/high school hybrid	10 to less than 20
Both hybrid	20 to less than 30
Elementary hybrid/high school distance	30 to less than 50
All Distance	50 or more

CASE RATE PER COUNTY

thru 3/20	14-day Case Rate per 10,000	Increase or (-) Decrease
Marshall	27.68	6.39
Norman	6.1	-6.10
Polk	11.40	-0.95
Red Lake	19.96	0.00