Minnesota Reports No New COVID-19 Deaths, Fewer Than 600 Cases Monday

(KNSI) – The Minnesota Department of Health is reporting no new COVID-19 deaths in the state on Monday.

There are 589 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases, including 58 in the five-county St. Cloud area: six in Benton County, 21 in Sherburne County, 18 in Stearns County and 13 in Wright County. Morrison County did not report any new cases Monday.

Those new positive cases were found out of 17,616 tests processed on Sunday; the one-day test positivity rate is 3.3 percent.

Statewide, 423 people are in the hospital for COVID-19.

Over the weekend, Minnesota crossed the threshold of having more than 2.7 million people vaccinated with at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. That’s 61.6 percent of all Minnesotans age 16 and older. The state hasn’t provided new vaccination data by age for 12-to-15-year-olds, who became eligible for the Pfizer shot on Thursday.

More than 2.3 million people are now considered fully vaccinated.

Though the statewide mask mandate was dropped on Friday, COVID-19 vaccines are still free and many clinics, including Minnesota’s community vaccination site at the River’s Edge Convention Center in St. Cloud, are taking walk-in appointments.

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