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All area counties saw COVID-19 case increases Thursday, according to daily updates from the Minnesota Department of Health.

Freeborn County had three new cases, increasing its total cumulative cases to 262 since the beginning of the pandemic. No information about the new cases has been released. 

The Freeborn County Public Health Department stated 21 people have now been hospitalized from the county for the virus at some point in their illness, and seven are currently hospitalized at this time, up one from the previous day. 

Out of the county’s total cases, 232 people are now out of isolation. 

According to the Minnesota Department of Health, Faribault County reported six new cases, increasing its total to 41; Mower County had 19, increasing its total to 847; Steele County had five new cases, pushing its total to 206; and Waseca County had one, for a total of 46.

Statewide, 365 new cases were reported, increasing the state’s total cumulative cases to 34,123. 

Of that total, 29,854 are now out of isolation, and 336 are hospitalized, including 162 in intensive care. 

Nine new deaths were reported from Dakota, Hennepin and Ramsey counties, including one person in their 40s and one person in their 50s from Hennepin county. Five of the new deaths were from people in long-term or assisted living care facilities. 

Minnesota has now had 1,406 deaths from COVID-19, of which 1,107 were residents of long-term or assisted living facilities.

 

Confirmed COVID-19 cases

County	Cases	Deaths
Aitkin	13	0
Anoka	1,961	103
Becker	53	0
Beltrami	27	0
Benton	203	3
Big Stone	14	0
Blue Earth	281	2
Brown	22	2
Carlton	81	0
Carver	308	1
Cass	11	2
Chippewa	69	1
Chisago	88	1
Clay	537	37
Clearwater	7	0
Cook	1	0
Cottonwood	127	0
Crow Wing	97	11
Dakota	2,012	85
Dodge	67	0
Douglas	55	0
Faribault	41	0
Fillmore	23	0
Freeborn	262	0
Goodhue	109	8
Grant	6	0
Hennepin	11,178	758
Houston	16	0
Hubbard	5	0
Isanti	56	0
Itasca	63	12
Jackson	53	0
Kanabec	13	1
Kandiyohi	564	1
Kittson	1	0
Koochiching	9	0
Lac qui Parle	4	0
Lake	5	0
Lake of the Woods	0	0
Le Sueur	71	1
Lincoln	7	0
Lyon	284	2
McLeod	75	0
Mahnomen	6	1
Marshall	12	0
Martin	148	5
Meeker	57	1
Mille Lacs	31	1
Morrison	56	1
Mower	847	2
Murray	47	0
Nicollet	115	12
Nobles	1,637	6
Norman	19	0
Olmsted	948	15
Otter Tail	85	1
Pennington	50	0
Pine	98	0
Pipestone	15	0
Polk	75	2
Pope	10	0
Ramsey	4,474	217
Red Lake	3	0
Redwood	12	0
Renville	19	1
Rice	771	4
Rock	28	0
Roseau	6	0
St. Louis	151	14
Scott	609	4
Sherburne	278	4
Sibley	35	2
Stearns	2,141	19
Steele	206	0
Stevens	3	0
Swift	20	1
Todd	395	2
Traverse	5	0
Wabasha	29	0
Wadena	15	0
Waseca	46	0
Washington	926	39
Watonwan	175	0
Wilkin	20	3
Winona	107	15
Wright	411	3
Yellow Medicine	24	0
Unknown/missing	79	0