Beadle adds 11 new COVID cases in final September report

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HURON — In the final weekly South Dakota Department of Health (DOH) COVID-19 report of September 2022, statewide numbers were significantly down, though infection rates on a per-test basis continue to remain high statewide and locally.

The state added 732 new positive cases, four new deaths, and 897 new recovered cases in Wednesday’s report. Active cases fell to 540, the lowest since reporting the same number on April 27.

For the month, the state reported 3,824 new positive cases and 28 virus-related fatalities.

Beadle County reported 11 new positive cases and 22 new recovered cases. Active cases in the county are reported at seven, the first time the county’s active case total has been single digits since May 11.

Beadle added 107 new positive cases in September, but did not record a COVID-related death in the county. The 107 cases make four straight months with 100+ new positive cases after the county had gone three months reporting 30 or less new cases earlier this year.

The Heartland Region added 28 new positive cases and 41 new recovered cases in the DOH report, dropping active cases in the seven-county region to 16.

During the month, the region added 183 new positive cases and two new deaths. With 1,382 tests run in the region, better than 13% of tests done in the Heartland resulted in a positive test for someone who had not had COVID before, the fourth straight month over 10%. For context, only one month in 2021 was over 10%, and that was December 2021 at 10.03%.