BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - November has become North Dakota’s deadliest month due to complications from COVID-19, according to figures released Tuesday by the state Department of Health.
Officials confirmed a record high of 37 deaths in the last day, bringing the statewide death toll from the virus to 883. The have been 317 fatalities in November, surpassing the October tally of 295.
The state’s death count is the 39th highest in the country and the eighth highest per capita at 112 deaths per 100,000 people, according to figures compiled Monday by The COVID Tracking Project. State health officials said fatality reports on Tuesdays are typically higher because of lag in reporting from the weekends.
The state said there were 289 people hospitalized with COVID-19 on Tuesday, a decrease of 25. The most recent data shows 22 staffed intensive care unit beds and 223 staffed inpatient beds available statewide.
There have been 74,401 positive tests since the start of the pandemic, including 1,019 processed on Tuesday.
There were about 2,360 new cases per 100,000 people in North Dakota over the past two weeks, which ranks first in the country for new cases per capita, according to Johns Hopkins University researchers. One in every 89 people in North Dakota tested positive in the past week.
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