State DOH reports six COVID-19 deaths Wednesday

Six more COVID-19 deaths were reported by the state Department of Health on Wednesday.  This puts the state’s total number of deaths since the start of the pandemic at 2474.  

Active cases statewide increased by six-hundred to more than 78-hundred, and the number of people hospitalized increased as well to 237.

Lake County reported 120 active COVID-19 cases as of Wednesday, while McCook and Moody Counties each had 58.  There were 32 active cases in Kingsbury County and ten in Miner County.  All area counties are listed by the state as having high community spread of the virus. 

According to the state Department of Health’s COVID-19 website, Madison Regional Health System currently has four COVID-19 occupied hospital beds, while Avera Flandreau Medical Center has three.  Brookings Hospital has two COVID-19 patients in ICU.  

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