PIERRE, S.D. – The Tuesday COVID-19 report from the South Dakota Department of Health showed 871 new cases with 175 of those listed as probable. Today’s update includes numbers from the weekend.
Hospitalizations saw a sharp increase today, up 45 to 231. Monument Health reports 72 people in the hospital due to COVID-19 and 20 are in the I.C.U. Twelve of those are on ventilators.
Active cases have crept back up over 6,000 Tuesday, with 6,083 being reported.
Three additional COVID-19 deaths have been reported. One of the new deaths was out of Pennington County, where the death toll is now 257. The statewide death toll rises to 2,270.
Pennington County led the Black Hills are in the number of new cases reports with 176 total. Of those 176, 35 are listed as probable.
Meade County added 21 confirmed new cases with 5 probable and Lawrence County had 24 confirmed and one probable listed.
Elsewhere, Butte and Fall River County each reported 14 new cases, Oglala Lakota County added 11 and Custer County tallied five.
Meanwhile, eleven active positive cases of COVID-19 have been reported at the Jameson Annex of the State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls, according to data released Tuesday by the Department of Corrections.
This is an increase over last week, when the DOC was reporting just four cases within the Jameson Annex.
Over the past three weeks, the DOC has been dealing with a COVID-19 outbreak within the South Dakota Women’s Prison facilities in Pierre, though as of Tuesday, the DOC now reports only seven active cases in those facilities, all among inmates. This is down from a total of 21 cases within the facility last week.
In total, the DOC is reporting 20 active positive cases within the system; 11 inmates at the Jameson Annex, 6 inmates at the South Dakota Women’s Prison, 1 inmate at the Pierre Community Work Center (part of the Women’s Prison facilities) and 2 staff members at the Rapid City Community Work Center.
