The department also confirmed the deaths of a Williams County woman older than 100 and a Burleigh County man in his 60s. Like the vast majority of North Dakotans who have succumbed to the illness, both had underlying health conditions, according to the department.
The department says 150 North Dakotans have died from the illness, including 83 residents of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities. There still are four deaths that remain in a "presumed positive" category, which means a medical professional determined that COVID-19 was a cause of death but the person was not tested for the illness while he or she was alive.
There are now 2,437 North Dakotans known to be infected with the virus — a steep hike from Wednesday.
The number of hospitalized residents rose by one from Wednesday to 67. Sixteen patients are in intensive care.
Grand Forks County reported 79 new cases Thursday, bringing the county to a state-high 491 active cases. Many of the cases from the county reported in the last two weeks are believed to be tied to the University of North Dakota, which aims to test all students, faculty and staff as the fall semester begins. The university reports that 192 students, faculty and staff have tested positive and another 647 people linked to the university are in quarantine.
Sixty-seven of the next cases came from Stark County, which includes Dickinson. The county has seen a massive jump in infections over the last month and now has 254 active cases.
Sixty of the new cases reported Thursday came from Cass County, which includes Fargo. The state's most populous county has 309 active cases. North Dakota State University has reported 98 student and employee cases of COVID-19 in the last two weeks, but university system officials recently said turnout for testing on college campuses has been lagging.
Stutsman County, which encompasses Jamestown, reported 29 new cases on Thursday. The county now has 101 active infections and has seen incremental rises to its case count over the last two weeks.
Nineteen of the new cases came from Burleigh County, which encompasses Bismarck. The county has the second most active cases with 408. Morton County, which sits just west of Burleigh County and includes Mandan, reported 24 new cases and has 142 active cases.
Gov. Doug Burgum is expected to speak today, Sept. 3, about the possibility of turning up the dial on the state's COVID-19 risk gauge for counties with high case counts such as Burleigh, Cass, Grand Forks and Stark. Burgum said last week his office would talk with health officials and local leaders in those counties, but Bismarck-Burleigh Public Health Director Renae Moch and Holly Scott, a spokeswoman for Fargo-Cass Public Health, said they hadn't gotten any direction on risk levels from Burgum’s office as of Wednesday afternoon.
Thirty-two counties reported at least one case Thursday, including many small, rural counties. All but four of the 53 counties in the state have at least one active case.
About 5.5% of the 6,544 test results announced Thursday came back positive, but 9.6% of residents tested for the first time received a positive result.
North Dakota does not report a seven-day rolling average for positivity rate as many other states do, but Forum News Service calculated the rate to be 10.1% for tests taken on previously untested residents.
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