PIERRE, S.D. – South Dakota has surpassed 24-hundred COVID-19 related deaths Monday as the Department of Health reported nine new deaths.
The state’s death toll is now 2,407.
Of the new deaths, two were reported out of Meade County and Pennington County had one.
New cases of COVID-19 totaled 335 today with 60 of those listed as probable.
Active cases were down a bit to 7,583 and the number of people hospitalized because of the virus was up a dozen to 273. Monument Health reports of the 45 COVID-19 hospitalizations at their facilities, all but four haven’t been vaccinated. There 13 people in the I.C.U. and 11 on ventilators. Monument Health says none of their I.C.U. or patients on ventilators have been vaccinated.
New cases across the Black Hills area included 36 in Pennington County, 15 in Meade County and 13 in Lawrence County.
Elsewhere, Fall River County had 4, Custer County added 2 and Harding County reported one new case.
