MARTIN COUNTY HAS 14 NEW CASES OF THE CORONAVIRUS. TOTAL CONFIRMED 1403. ACTIVE 121. NEWLY LISTED AS HOSPITALIZED 0. TOTAL HOSPITALIZATIONS 85. CASES BEYONDF INFECTIOUS PERIOD 1,275. COVID RELATED DEATHS 23.

FARIBAULT COUNTY HAS 30 NEW CASES. TOTAL CONFIRMED 766. ACTIVE 115. NEWLY LISTED AS HOSPITALIZED 2. TOTAL HOPITALIZATIONS 59. CASES BEYOND INFECTIOUS PERIOD 649. COVID RELATED DEATHS 5.

WATONWAN COUNTY HAS 6 NEW CASES AS OF LAST REPORT. TOTAL CONFIRMED 974. ACTIVE 53. CURRENTLY KNOWN HOSPITALIZED 11. TOTAL HOSPITALIZATIONS 50. OUT OF ISOLATION 917. 4 COVID RELATED DEATHS SO FAR .

Minnesota health officials on Sunday confirmed 85 new deaths due to complications from the coronavirus, lifting the death toll to 4,444 since the start of the pandemic.

The state reported 3,439 positive COVID-19 tests in the last day, for an overall count of 378,823. Health care workers have accounted for 28,337 positive cases

There were 1,272 new cases per 100,000 people in Minnesota over the past two weeks, which ranks fourth in the country for new cases per capita, according to The COVID Tracking Project. One in every 186 people in Minnesota tested positive in the past week.

Four counties have surpassed 25,000 cases, including Hennepin with 77,378, Ramsey with 32,735, Dakota with 26,504 and Anoka with 25,030. Those counties have combined for 2,329 deaths.

Iowa reported 1,239 new COVID-19 cases and one more death linked to the coronavirus on Sunday.The state was reporting 256,248 cases of the virus and 3,213 deaths as of 10 a.m. Sunday. The seven-day rolling average of daily new cases in Iowa decreased over the past two weeks, going from 2,102.14 new cases per day on Nov. 28 to 1,324 new cases per day onSaturday.Iowa officials said 749 people were hospitalized with the virus on Saturday, which was down from 820 on Friday. Iowa’s statewide 14-day positivity rate was 15.2% on Sunday. Our of the state’s 99 counties, 58 had a 14-day positivity rate above 15%. Only two counties were reporting rates below 10%