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Mower County reported its third COVID-19 death on Tuesday, according to the daily update from local and state health officials.

The person was in their 70s.

In addition to the new death, all but one area counties saw new COVID-19 cases reported. The following are the new cases and cumulative cases reported:

• Faribault County: No new cases, 96 total cases
• Freeborn County: Four new cases, 374 total cases
• Mower County: Three new cases, 1,128 total cases
• Steele County: Two new cases, 371 total cases
• Waseca County: Nine new cases, 180 total cases

The Freeborn County Public Health Department stated of the county’s new cases, one was transferred from another county’s list. One person is between 10 and 20 years old, two are in their 20s and one is in their 30s.

There are now 14 active cases in Freeborn County, and no one is currently hospitalized.

Statewide, 359 new cases were reported, increasing the cumulative count to 66,061.

Of that number, 59,568 are no longer in isolation and 304 are hospitalized, including 154 in intensive care.

The Minnesota Department of Health reported eight other deaths in addition to the one in Mower County. The other deaths were of residents in Anoka, Carver, Nobles, Ramsey, Scott, Sherburne and Watonwan counties. Seven were residents of long-term care or assisted living facilities.

The new deaths push the state’s death total to 1,721. Of that number, 1,287 are in long-term care or assisted living facilities.

The state department said testing was lower than recent days with 7,402 tests completed on Monday. The new tests push the total tests completed to 1,273,397.

 

Minnesota COVID-19 cases, deaths

County	Cases	Deaths
Aitkin	44	1
Anoka	4,096	116
Becker	167	1
Beltrami	279	1
Benton	338	3
Big Stone	26	0
Blue Earth	998	5
Brown	99	2
Carlton	158	1
Carver	973	4
Cass	83	3
Chippewa	126	1
Chisago	227	1
Clay	799	40
Clearwater	14	0
Cook	6	0
Cottonwood	188	0
Crow Wing	272	14
Dakota	4,921	106
Dodge	141	0
Douglas	147	1
Faribault	96	0
Fillmore	77	0
Freeborn	374	1
Goodhue	217	9
Grant	57	4
Hennepin	20,722	851
Houston	60	0
Hubbard	37	0
Isanti	148	0
Itasca	150	12
Jackson	85	0
Kanabec	45	3
Kandiyohi	742	1
Kittson	3	0
Koochiching	84	3
Lac qui Parle	10	0
Lake	25	0
Lake of the Woods	7	0
Le Sueur	259	2
Lincoln	61	0
Lyon	432	3
McLeod	278	0
Mahnomen	29	1
Marshall	30	0
Martin	212	6
Meeker	91	2
Mille Lacs	79	3
Morrison	102	1
Mower	1,128	3
Murray	130	1
Nicollet	384	13
Nobles	1,801	11
Norman	43	0
Olmsted	1,851	23
Otter Tail	227	4
Pennington	75	1
Pine	132	0
Pipestone	165	9
Polk	161	4
Pope	49	0
Ramsey	8,170	275
Red Lake	26	0
Redwood	38	0
Renville	69	5
Rice	1,073	8
Rock	90	0
Roseau	57	0
St. Louis	681	21
Scott	1,750	25
Sherburne	787	11
Sibley	93	2
Stearns	2,973	21
Steele	371	2
Stevens	22	0
Swift	58	1
Todd	436	2
Traverse	17	0
Wabasha	101	0
Wadena	30	0
Waseca	180	1
Washington	2,404	48
Watonwan	394	3
Wilkin	39	3
Winona	279	17
Wright	990	5
Yellow Medicine	56	0
Unknown/missing	117	0