SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - South Dakota health officials on Wednesday reported 99 new cases of COVID-19 and three new deaths due to complications from the coronavirus.
It’s the third day in a row that officials have confirmed three deaths, raising the total number of fatalities to 1,976 since the start of the pandemic. The death count is the eighth highest per capita in the country at 224 deaths per 100,000 people, according to Johns Hopkins University researchers.
There have been 123,073 positive COVID-19 tests reported in South Dakota.
There were 183 new cases per 100,000 people in South Dakota over the past two weeks, which ranks 26th in the country for new cases per capita, researchers said. One in every 1,183 people in the state tested positive in the past week.
A total of 331,863 South Dakotans have received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, which is more than 55% of the people who are eligible for shots.
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