PIERRE, S.D. – The South Dakota Department of Health reported 58 new cases of COVID-19 in their Monday report.
Both Pennington and Lawrence County reported 5 new cases each and Meade County had no new cases to report.
Pennington County’s cumulative total is now 896. There are 121 active cases, down one from yesterday, and 743 people have recovered from the virus.
Lawrence County now has 60 total with 32 of them currently active. So far, 29 people have recovered from the virus in Lawrence.
Meade County remained at 94 or a cumulative total, and recorded two new recoveries, dropping the number of active cases to 24. So far, 69 people have recovered in Meade.
Elsewhere around the area, Butte, Custer and Oglala Lakota counties all reported one new case.
The statewide active caseload is 1,146 today. That is up 21 from Sunday.
The number of people hospitalized is also up 8 today to 63.
Despite the increase in hospitalizations, state health department Secretary Kim Malsom-Rysdon says COVID-19 patients only account for 3-percent of the occupied hospital beds and 3-percent of the I.C.U. hospital beds statewide.
There were no new deaths reported over the past 24 hours, keeping the state total at 146.
