PIERRE, S.D. – It was another round of new high numbers in Friday’s COVID-19 report.
The Department of Health on their website COVID.SD.GOV report 1,560 new infections today – of those, 171 are considered probable.
The new data sends the active caseload in South Dakota over 13,000 for the first time to 13,520 – a difference of 1,058 over the past 24 hours.
Twelve new deaths were also reported in the latest update, sending the state’s death toll to 415. Health officials reported 3 deaths out of Walworth, 2 each in Turner and Codington and one each in Beadle, Brown, Minnehaha, Oglala Lakota and Yankton counties.
Hospitalizations, according to health officials, dropped 10 from yesterday to 403.
Across West River, there were 484 new cases with Pennington County reporting the most with 167. Dewey and Lawrence County had the second and third most cases with 58 and 57 respectively,
The cumulative total in Pennington County rose to 4,633 Friday and active cases are up over 100 to 1,291.
In Lawrence County, the cumulative total rose to 982 and of those, 236 remain active.
Meade County had 33 new cases Friday, sending the total to 995 with 236 active cases.
Butte County added 28 new infections, sending the cumulative total to 396 with 193 remaining active.
Oglala Lakota County reported 37 new COVID-19 cases, and their total is nearing 1,000 with 990. There are currently 513 active cases – more than half of the total.
Other new cases across West River include 17 in Corson, 14 each in Fall River and Todd, 12 in Bennett, 8 in Custer, 7 each in Ziebach, Stanley and Gregory, 6 in Lyman, 5 each in Jackson and Tripp and one in Perkins.
Of the 22 western South Dakota counties, all but two — Jones and Ziebach — have substantial community spread. In the past week, the region has averaged nearly 270 new cases per day, and the number of Monument Health hospitalized COVID-19 patients has more than doubled since Oct. 1.
