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Number Of South Dakota COVID-19 Cases Jump To 90

The number of COVID-19 cases in South Dakota is approaching triple digits.

Ninety people have now tested positive for the disease. That’s 22 new cases in one day.

Minnehaha and Beadle counties now report half the state’s cases.

Twenty seven of South Dakota’s 66 counties now have at least one case of COVID-19. There is now community spread in ten counties.

State lawmakers convene Monday to consider a dozen bills introduced by Governor Kristi Noem to address the pandemic.

Two of those bills redefine the Governor’s and Department of Health’s authority to restrict public gatherings and employ emergency management to declared disaster areas.

Lee Strubinger is SDPB’s Rapid City-based politics and public policy reporter. Lee is a two-time national Edward R. Murrow Award winning reporter. He holds a master’s in public affairs reporting from the University of Illinois-Springfield.