COVID-19 cases surging in Minnesota

Minnesota's COVID-19 indicators showed a worsening pandemic on Tuesday with continued growth in cases and hospitalizations, including a surge of newly reported infections over the weekend that exceeded the state's capacity for logging cases.

The latest data from the Minnesota Department of Health added 7,173 new cases to the state's pandemic totals and continued a trend of rising daily cases over the past two weeks.

Over the weekend, however, the high volume of new cases meant that staffing wasn't sufficient to review all the data, the Health Department said. The tally reported Tuesday is about 2,500 cases shy of the true count for the 72-hour weekend reporting period.

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