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No new COVID-19 cases were reported in Faribault, Freeborn, Steele and Waseca counties, according to the daily update by the Minnesota Department of Health.

Freeborn County remains at 360 cumulative cases, with five of those cases currently active, the Freeborn County Public Health Department stated. No one from the county is hospitalized.

Faribault County remains at 89 cases, Steele County at 351 and Waseca Couny at 149.

Mower County had two new cases and has now had 1,107 cases.

Statewide, there were 470 new cases, increasing the cumulative case count to 62,303. Of that number, 55,855 are no longer in isolation.

Twelve new deaths were reported — the first time the state has seen double digits in new deaths since early July. The new deaths were in Douglas, Hennepin, Kanabec, Ramsey, Scott, Sherburne, St. Louis, Washington and Watonwan counties. All but one of the people were 60 or older, and nine resided in long-term care or assisted living facilities.

The new deaths increase the state’s total death count to 1,678, of which 1,260 were residents of long-term care or assisted living facilities.

The state department said 335 people were hospitalized as of today, including 154 in intensive care.

There were 10,957 new tests completed, increasing the cumulative tests to 1,188,288.

 

Minnesota COVID-19 cases, deaths

County	Cases	Deaths
Aitkin	40	1
Anoka	3,792	115
Becker	161	1
Beltrami	249	0
Benton	323	3
Big Stone	22	0
Blue Earth	941	5
Brown	89	2
Carlton	145	0
Carver	890	3
Cass	76	2
Chippewa	109	1
Chisago	207	1
Clay	792	40
Clearwater	14	0
Cook	5	0
Cottonwood	177	0
Crow Wing	246	14
Dakota	4,558	106
Dodge	131	0
Douglas	144	2
Faribault	89	0
Fillmore	71	0
Freeborn	360	1
Goodhue	202	9
Grant	56	3
Hennepin	19,677	840
Houston	44	0
Hubbard	35	0
Isanti	131	0
Itasca	146	12
Jackson	79	0
Kanabec	37	2
Kandiyohi	705	1
Kittson	3	0
Koochiching	80	3
Lac qui Parle	8	0
Lake	22	0
Lake of the Woods	4	0
Le Sueur	230	1
Lincoln	59	0
Lyon	425	3
McLeod	208	0
Mahnomen	27	1
Marshall	29	0
Martin	209	5
Meeker	87	2
Mille Lacs	72	3
Morrison	93	1
Mower	1,107	2
Murray	124	1
Nicollet	351	13
Nobles	1,773	6
Norman	40	0
Olmsted	1,781	23
Otter Tail	198	3
Pennington	75	1
Pine	129	0
Pipestone	158	9
Polk	156	4
Pope	48	0
Ramsey	7,775	269
Red Lake	24	0
Redwood	36	0
Renville	67	5
Rice	1,042	8
Rock	85	0
Roseau	53	0
St. Louis	600	20
Scott	1,608	22
Sherburne	737	10
Sibley	84	2
Stearns	2,913	20
Steele	351	2
Stevens	18	0
Swift	55	1
Todd	429	2
Traverse	11	0
Wabasha	92	0
Wadena	27	0
Waseca	149	0
Washington	2,192	47
Watonwan	328	1
Wilkin	35	3
Winona	265	16
Wright	903	5
Yellow Medicine	52	0
Unknown/missing	133	0