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Northland COVID-19 cases return to triple digits in past week
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Another 112 people in St. Louis County have tested positive for COVID-19 as of Friday, according to Minnesota health officials.
The Minnesota Department of Health also reported another death from COVID-19 in the county on Friday. However, that death, along with the three of the four other deaths the county logged this week, occurred in 2020.
Those four people lived in long-term care facilities, Dana Kazel, spokesperson for St. Louis County, told the News Tribune. The county has not heard from the health department why those deaths are just now being reported.
State numbers for cases, hospitalizations rising Posted
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REGIONAL- A March spike in COVID-19 cases in Ely is on the decline, but health officials continued to sound the alarm on Tuesday over increasing cases and hospitalizations statewide.
A key measure of COVID activity, the seven-day case average, hit 39.8 on March 22, the highest in northern St. Louis County since Dec. 9. However, since then, the rate has dropped by more than half, and was sitting at 15.9 on March 31, the most recent county data available.
The Ely outbreak accounted for 70 percent of the cases in northern St. Louis County in March, according to county communications manager Dana Kazel. However, the number of new cases in Ely dipped last week to 18, or about half the number of cases reported in the prior week. Minnesota Department of Health weekly reports show that between Feb. 25 and April 1, 75 new cases were identified in the Ely zip code, with most of those appearing in the second half of Ma