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MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH RELEASES LATEST COVID-19 NUMBERS (May 31)

The Minnesota Department of Health has released the latest COVID-19 numbers. There have been 249,519 completed tests with 24,850 positive cases.
Polk County has 61 positive cases, Pennington County adds two more positive tests for a total of 19, Norman County has 13, Marshall County has 12, and Red Lake County has 4. Lake of the Woods County is one of the two counties that doesn’t have a positive case reported.  All the numbers are below – 

Updated May 31, 2020
Updated daily at 11 a.m., with data current as of 4 p.m. the previous day.

Data is for cases that were tested and returned positive. All data is preliminary and may change as cases are investigated. Many data points are collected during case interviews. Data presented below is for all cases, regardless of interview status. Data for cases pending interview may be listed as “unknown/missing”.

Not all suspected cases of COVID-19 are tested, so this data is not representative of the total number of people in Minnesota who have or had COVID-19. Cumulative numbers are since Jan. 20, 2020.

Daily Update:

Because all data is preliminary, the change in number of cumulative positive cases and deaths from one day to the next may not equal the newly reported cases or deaths.

24,850
Total positive cases (cumulative)
664
Newly reported cases
14
Newly reported deaths

Testing

Total approximate number of completed tests: 249,519

  • Total approximate number of completed tests from the MDH Public Health Lab: 23,832
  • Total approximate number of completed tests from external laboratories: 225,687

Graph of Laboratory testing for COVID-19 (SARS-COV-2), data in table below.

Testing data table

Minnesota Case Overview

  • Total positive cases: 24,850
    • Number of health care workers: 2,690

Graph of confirmed cases of COVID-19 by specimen collection date, data in table below.

Patients no longer needing isolation

  • Patients no longer needing isolation: 18,695

Deaths

  • Deaths: 1,040
    • Deaths among cases that resided in long-term care or assisted living facilities: 848
  • Probable COVID-19 Deaths*: 10
    * COVID-19 listed on death certificate but a positive test not documented for the person.

Deaths of confirmed cases in Minnesota, data in table below

Deaths data table

Hospitalization

Total cases requiring hospitalization: 3,047

  • Hospitalized as of today: 555
    • Hospitalized in ICU as of today: 257

Minnesota COVID-19 hospitalizations, data in table below

Hospitalization data table

Case Demographics

Age

Age group data table:
Including age group of deaths

Gender

Gender data table

Race & Ethnicity

Race and ethnicity data table:
Including race and ethnicity of deaths

Likely Exposure

Likely exposure data table

Not all cases among health care workers have a likely exposure as health care staff.

Residence

Cases by County of Residence

County of residence is confirmed during the case interview. At the time of this posting not all interviews have been completed.

County of residence data table:
Including county of residence of deaths

Residence Type

Residence type data table

Weekly Report

Care Facilities

Congregate Care Facilities with Exposures, by County


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