MPR News PM Update

March 1, 2022

COVID-19 numbers in the state continue to trend in the right direction. 

Minnesota is now averaging fewer than 1,000 newly confirmed cases a day — down from more than 3,000 a day a few weeks ago. 

There are other hopeful signs, including from the Met Council's analysis of wastewater in the Twin Cities. 

"Their measurements of COVID-19 particles in metro wastewater have matched up pretty closely with case counts over the course of the pandemic. And they're showing levels so low, that we haven't seen since last July," said MPR News data reporter David Montgomery. 

Montgomery says more than 10 percent of new cases in Minnesota are reinfections, in someone who previously had COVID. Those levels are the highest of the pandemic so far. 

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