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Hospitalizations due to COVID-19 continued to drop Sunday, according to the daily update by the Minnesota Department of Health.

The state reported 311 new cases, pushing the state’s total cumulative cases to 30,471. Of that number, 26,090 are no longer in isolation.

Fifteen new deaths were reported in Blue Earth, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey and Stearns counties, 11 of which were residents of long-term care or assisted living facilities. The total people who have died from the disease in Minnesota is 1,298.

The department stated 369 people are hospitalized as of today, including 186 in intensive care.

In Freeborn County, two new lab-confirmed cases were reported, including one person in their 30s and another in their 40s, the Freeborn County Public Health Department stated. Two people continue to be hospitalized at this time.

Of the county’s total 220 cumulative cases, 166 of those people are now out of isolation.

The Minnesota Department of Health reported 11 new cases in Mower County, for a total of 650 cases since the beginning of the pandemic, and one new case in Faribault County, for a total of 27 cases.

No new cases were reported in Steele or Waseca counties, which have had 175 and 33 cases, respectively.

 

Confirmed COVID-19 cases

County	Cases	Deaths
Aitkin	13	0
Anoka	1,742	88
Becker	49	0
Beltrami	23	0
Benton	193	3
Big Stone	13	0
Blue Earth	163	2
Brown	19	2
Carlton	80	0
Carver	270	2
Cass	11	2
Chippewa	56	1
Chisago	78	1
Clay	504	36
Clearwater	5	0
Cook	1	0
Cottonwood	106	0
Crow Wing	90	9
Dakota	1,713	74
Dodge	59	0
Douglas	48	0
Faribault	27	0
Fillmore	20	1
Freeborn	221	0
Goodhue	94	7
Grant	6	0
Hennepin	10,191	716
Houston	5	0
Hubbard	5	0
Isanti	49	0
Itasca	59	12
Jackson	46	0
Kanabec	13	1
Kandiyohi	546	1
Kittson	1	0
Koochiching	9	0
Lac qui Parle	3	0
Lake	1	0
Lake of the Woods	0	0
Le Sueur	52	1
Lincoln	6	0
Lyon	208	2
McLeod	54	0
Mahnomen	6	1
Marshall	12	0
Martin	143	5
Meeker	50	1
Mille Lacs	28	1
Morrison	54	1
Mower	650	2
Murray	43	0
Nicollet	95	11
Nobles	1,620	6
Norman	17	0
Olmsted	778	12
Otter Tail	83	1
Pennington	50	0
Pine	96	0
Pipestone	14	0
Polk	67	2
Pope	10	0
Ramsey	3,936	190
Red Lake	4	0
Redwood	11	0
Renville	12	0
Rice	688	3
Rock	25	0
Roseau	6	0
St. Louis	123	14
Scott	528	4
Sherburne	266	2
Sibley	25	2
Stearns	2,107	19
Steele	175	0
Stevens	1	0
Swift	19	1
Todd	373	2
Traverse	5	0
Wabasha	21	0
Wadena	10	0
Waseca	33	0
Washington	796	37
Watonwan	98	0
Wilkin	15	3
Winona	84	15
Wright	377	2
Yellow Medicine	9	0
Unknown/missing	56	0