The state Department of Health is returning to daily weekday COVID-19 updates. The new numbers show 139 new cases and one new death.
That brings the state’s death toll to 2,052. The death was a woman in her 80s.
Active cases are at their highest level since May. There are 1,270 active COVID cases in the state and 76 people hospitalized. Of those patients, 10 are on ventilators.
Nearly 55 percent of state residents 12 and older now have the full vaccine series.
South Dakota Department of Health:
"The more the virus that causes COVID-19 circulates in a community, the more opportunities it has to transform into variants that can spread more easily. Help stop the spread and further mutation of the Coronavirus by getting vaccinated."
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