Another 138 people in the 10-county region of the Northland have tested positive for COVID-19.
More than half of those people live in St. Louis County — the region's largest county — which logged 78 new cases Saturday.
Another person from St. Louis County has died from COVID-19. The person was in their early 60s, according to the Minnesota Department of Health. The county has lost 295 people to COVID-19.
Minnesota health officials reported a total of 12 new deaths while Wisconsin reported four new deaths from COVID-19 on Saturday.
New cases and seven-day averages in Northland counties:
- Aitkin — 8; 5.1.
- Carlton — 10; 8.
- Cook — 0; 0.6.
- Itasca — 8; 12.4.
- Koochiching — 7; 6.
- Lake — 2; 0.9.
- St. Louis — 78; 57.6.
- Ashland — 1; 1.4.
- Bayfield — 1; 4.
- Douglas — 23; 10.6.
Nearly 3,000 more people in Northeastern Minnesota have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, bringing the total number of people with at least one dose in the seven counties to 141,112. That's 52% of the population age 16 and older.
Percentage of the total population with at least one vaccine dose in each county:
- Aitkin — 41%.
- Carlton — 47%.
- Cook — 64%.
- Itasca — 37%.
- Koochiching — 37%.
- Lake — 45%.
- St. Louis — 44%.
- Ashland — 44%.
- Bayfield —51%.
- Douglas —37%.
