BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - Hospitalizations due to the coronavirus have fallen to its lowest total since Aug. 20, with Sunday’s update by the North Dakota Department of Health showing 49 people who are being treated in medical facilities.
That’s down one from Saturday’s report. The state’s hospital tracker shows 38 staffed intensive care unit beds and 421 staffed inpatient beds available throughout North Dakota.
Officials confirmed 99 new COVID-19 cases out of 3,079 tests that were processed in the last day, a positivity rate of 3.7%. A total of 96,817 people have tested positive since the start of the pandemic.
No new deaths were listed in Sunday’s report.
There were about 284 new cases per 100,000 people in North Dakota over the past two weeks, which ranks 50th in the country for new cases per capita, according to The COVID Tracking Project. One in every 756 people in North Dakota tested positive in the past week.
For most people, the new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough that clear up in two to three weeks. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia and death.
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