Wright County Government: Public Health Releases Weekly COVID-19 Dashboard

St. Michael MN

21 January, 2022

4:08 PM

Description

Press release from the Wright County Government: January 21, 2022 Wright County Public Health has released its weekly COVID-19 dashboard for the period of Jan. 14-20 and the omicron variant continues to make its way to Wright County. There were 1,491 new confirmed cases over the last seven days – the most in a one-week period since the Dec. 17, 2020 dashboard and the second week in a row with the highest weekly number of cases since 2020. In addition, there were 40 cases that required hospitalization, five cases that required treatment in an Intensive Care Unit and seven deaths. Since the pandemic began, there have been 32,029 confirmed cases, 1,322 cases that required hospitalization, 237 the required a stay in an ICU and 278 deaths. To see the full dashboard, click here: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/026d05fb250c47e08ceb0700bfcd00ee. For information on the omicron variant, breakthrough cases and case rates among the vaccinated and unvaccinated, visit the Minnesota Department of Health website at https://mn.gov/covid19/. This press release was produced by the Wright County Government. The views expressed here are the author's own.