Eight COVID-19 deaths reported in state, including one in Miner County

A Miner County resident is one of the eight COVID-19 deaths reported by the state Department of Health on Wednesday.  Miner County has now had twelve COVID-19 deaths, while Lake County has had 20.  The total number of COVID-19 deaths in the state is now at 2419 since the start of the pandemic.

As of Wednesday, Miner County reported eight active COVID-19 cases, while Lake County had 113.  Moody County reported 83 active cases and McCook County had 64.

Statewide, active COVID-19 cases were at just more than seven-thousand yesterday, and 271 people were hospitalized with the virus. 

(AP) — South Dakota’s largest hospital systems are warning that they are strained and pushing off medical care as the state’s hospitals fill with the highest number of people infected with COVID-19 since the beginning of 2021. Officials with Sanford Health, Avera Medical Group and the city of Sioux Falls are urging people to get vaccinated and take precautions against spreading the virus during holiday gatherings. The state is seeing its worst surge of the virus since last winter. One in every 351 people in the state tested positive for the virus in the past week, according to Johns Hopkins researchers.