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.