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Surveillance increased for coronavirus variant threats to Minnesota's pandemic progress

Minnesota is increasing its search for more infectious strains of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, hoping to identify any troubling variants that could reverse the sharp declines in pandemic activity over the last month.

Four of five key pandemic measures are below Minnesota's high-risk thresholds for the first time since last summer - with the positivity rate of diagnostic testing dropping to a near-record low of 3.4% on Wednesday and the daily rate of new infections receding below 10 per 100,000 people for the first time since last July.

Minnesota's hospitalization rate of COVID-19 patients also returned to a level last seen in March before the latest wave of viral transmission.

https://www.startribune.com/surveillance-increased-for-coronavirus-variant-threats-to-minnesota-s-pandemic-progress/600063950/

 

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