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Area counties reported several new COVID-19 cases on Saturday in the daily update from health officials.

Freeborn County reported two new cases, increasing the county’s total cases to 557.

The Freeborn County Public Health Department stated one of the new cases was under 10 and the other was in their 40s.

There are now 17 active cases in the county, and two people are hospitalized.

The following were updates from other area counties:

• Faribault County: five new cases, 159 total cases

• Mower County: nine new cases, 1,366 total cases

• Steele County: 10 new cases, 581 total cases

• Waseca County: 47 new cases, 817 total cases

Statewide, 1,434 new cases were reported, increasing the state’s cumulative cases to 102,787. Of that number, 91,844 are no longer in isolation, according to the Minnesota Department of Health.

Fourteen new deaths were reported from Anoka, Chippewa, Dakota, Hennepin, Kanabec, Pipestone, Redwood, St. Louis, Washington and Wright counties. With the exception of one person who died in their early 50s in Kanabec County, the remainder of people who died were 60 or older. Ten were residents of long-term care or assisted living facilities.

This is the fourth day in a row with double digits deaths.

There have now been 2,073 COVID-19 deaths in the state, of which 1,482 were residents of long-term care or assisted living facilities.

The state reported 29,492 new tests completed, increasing the state’s total tests to 2,116,038.

 

 

Minnesota COVID-19 cases, deaths

County	Cases	Deaths
Aitkin	94	1
Anoka	6,564	139
Becker	306	2
Beltrami	528	5
Benton	601	3
Big Stone	90	0
Blue Earth	1,800	7
Brown	220	2
Carlton	298	1
Carver	1,479	7
Cass	209	4
Chippewa	255	2
Chisago	574	1
Clay	1,546	41
Clearwater	35	0
Cook	7	0
Cottonwood	235	0
Crow Wing	617	18
Dakota	7,914	129
Dodge	278	0
Douglas	413	3
Faribault	159	0
Fillmore	155	0
Freeborn	557	4
Goodhue	413	9
Grant	66	4
Hennepin	28,440	942
Houston	146	0
Hubbard	153	1
Isanti	338	1
Itasca	409	16
Jackson	159	1
Kanabec	144	9
Kandiyohi	1,110	3
Kittson	12	0
Koochiching	126	4
Lac qui Parle	80	2
Lake	72	0
Lake of the Woods	26	1
Le Sueur	491	4
Lincoln	123	0
Lyon	768	4
Mahnomen	49	1
Marshall	57	1
Martin	499	12
McLeod	508	2
Meeker	231	2
Mille Lacs	189	3
Morrison	314	3
Mower	1,366	6
Murray	186	3
Nicollet	583	17
Nobles	2,001	16
Norman	64	0
Olmsted	2,653	28
Otter Tail	512	6
Pennington	129	1
Pine	379	0
Pipestone	261	14
Polk	348	4
Pope	106	0
Ramsey	11,501	326
Red Lake	45	1
Redwood	200	7
Renville	170	8
Rice	1,393	8
Rock	189	1
Roseau	143	0
Scott	2,733	33
Sherburne	1,233	15
Sibley	207	3
St. Louis	1,877	49
Stearns	4,262	25
Steele	581	2
Stevens	120	1
Swift	152	1
Todd	525	2
Traverse	39	0
Wabasha	224	0
Wadena	85	0
Waseca	817	9
Washington	4,088	57
Watonwan	538	4
Wilkin	78	3
Winona	972	18
Wright	1,790	8
Yellow Medicine	215	3
Unknown/missing	165	0