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Steele and Waseca counties saw jumps in confirmed COVID-19 cases Thursday, according to the Minnesota Department of Health.

Cases increased from 29 to 37 in Steele County and from seven to 12 in Waseca County.

Cases also increased by one in Freeborn County to 39 and by one in Mower County to 36. Faribault County saw a decrease by one, putting its total at seven.

The Freeborn County Public Health Department stated the county’s new case was a person in their 50s. As of today, 25 of Freeborn County’s cases had recovered and are out of isolation.

Statewide, total positive cases grew to 9,365, an increase in 786 cases. Of the total cases, 5,308 people have recovered and no longer need isolation, and 508 people have died, an increase in 23 from the previous day. Of the total deaths, 407 resided in long-term care or assisted living facilities.

The Minnesota Department of Health stated 435 people are hospitalized as of today, including 182 in intensive care.

The median age of hospitalized cases is 61, though ages have ranged from an infant less than 1 month old to a person 102 years of age. The median age of the people who have died is 83, though ages have ranged from 30 to 109.

Health care workers make up 1,205 of the positive cases.

The state department said people ages 30 to 39 represent 19% of all lab-confirmed positive cases. People ages 20 to 29 represent the next highest total at 17% of cases. People ages 70 and older have accounted for 82% of the deaths.

The highest number of overall cases have been reported in Hennepin County, with 2,962 cases and 342 deaths. Counties with the next highest numbers are Stearns County with 1,161 cases and Nobles County with 1,153.

Ramsey County has had 717 cases, and Anoka County has had 426 cases. Olmsted County has had 336 cases.

The department stated 97,421 tests have been completed, including 14,061 through the Minnesota Department of Health’s public health lab and 83,360 through external laboratories.

Confirmed COVID-19 cases

County	Cases	Deaths
Aitkin	1	0
Anoka	426	27
Becker	18	0
Beltrami	6	0
Benton	64	1
Big Stone	2	0
Blue Earth	55	0
Brown	9	1
Carlton	62	0
Carver	58	0
Cass	7	0
Chippewa	5	0
Chisago	14	1
Clay	222	15
Clearwater	2	0
Cottonwood	43	0
Crow Wing	23	1
Dakota	322	12
Dodge	21	0
Douglas	14	0
Faribault	7	0
Fillmore	12	1
Freeborn	39	0
Goodhue	25	0
Grant	1	0
Hennepin	2,962	342
Houston	2	0
Isanti	7	0
Itasca	24	0
Jackson	29	0
Kanabec	4	0
Kandiyohi	238	1
Kittson	1	0
Koochiching	1	0
Lac qui Parle	2	0
Lake	1	0
Le Sueur	28	0
Lincoln	3	0
Lyon	15	0
Mahnomen	2	1
Marshall	8	0
Martin	111	4
McLeod	6	0
Meeker	18	0
Mille Lacs	6	1
Morrison	11	0
Mower	36	0
Murray	25	0
Nicollet	18	2
Nobles	1,153	2
Norman	9	0
Olmsted	336	8
Otter Tail	21	0
Pennington	1	0
Pine	61	0
Pipestone	5	0
Polk	43	0
Pope	3	0
Ramsey	717	39
Red Lake	1	0
Redwood	3	0
Renville	6	0
Rice	48	1
Rock	19	0
Roseau	1	0
Scott	100	1
Sherburne	88	1
Sibley	2	0
St. Louis	89	11
Stearns	1,161	4
Steele	37	0
Stevens	1	0
Swift	2	0
Todd	26	0
Traverse	2	0
Wabasha	12	0
Wadena	4	0
Waseca	12	0
Washington	193	12
Watonwan	18	0
Wilkin	11	3
Winona	68	15
Wright	73	1
Yellow Medicine	3	0
Unknown/missing	20	0