PIERRE, S.D. – South Dakota health officials report hospitalizations due to COVID-19 were back up over 100 today.
The number of people receiving treatment totaled 103 Friday with 19 people currently in the I.C.U. and 9 people statewide on ventilators.
Despite the increased hospitalizations, no new deaths were reported today, keeping the state’s death toll at 1,938.
New COVID-19 cases today totaled 200 with 42 of them listed as probable.
Active cases were down by 70 to 2,417.
Pennington County had 16 new cases Friday for a cumulative total of 13,267 since the pandemic began.
Meade County added 2 new cases and Lawrence County saw an additional three new cases.
Elsewhere across the Black Hills region, Custer County reported 6 new cases and Oglala Lakota County had three.
