BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - The North Dakota Department of Health on Thursday reported eight additional deaths due to complications from the coronavirus, raising the eight-day total to 34 and the overall total to 212.
The latest fatalities included five combined in Burleigh and Morton counties, considered the state’s hot spot in the last two months. Burleigh leads the state in active cases with 705, out of a record 3,483 cases statewide.
The update showed 471 positive COVID-19 tests from 38 counties in the last day after 7,022 tests were processed. Burleigh County had the most cases with 118, followed by Cass County with 78, Morton County with 43 and Stark County with 31.
Hospitalizations remained unchanged at 89, with 26 people being treated in intensive care units.
The latest deaths are a Burleigh County man in his 80s, a Burleigh County woman in her 90s, a Morton County man in his 90s, a Morton County man in his 70s, a Morton County woman in her 80s, a Ward County man in his 90s, a Ward County woman in her 60s and a Benson County woman in her 70s. All but one of them had underlying health conditions, officials said.
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