COVID-19 Weekly Report

This report includes more detailed information on testing, confirmed positive cases, demographics, likely exposure, and syndromic surveillance. Some downloadable data files are also provided below the current report.
Updated every Thursday.

Current Report

• Weekly COVID-19 Report: 10/15/2020 (PDF)
  The current report includes more detailed information on testing, demographics, syndromic surveillance, and more.

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Cases by Age Group and Specimen Collection Date

• Downloadable data file: Cases by Age Group and Specimen Collection Date (CSV)
  • This data is confirmed cases by age group by date of specimen collection in Minnesota.
  • Data is reported by MMWR week, which is the week of the year assigned by the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System for the purposes of disease reporting and publishing.
  • This data is part of the COVID-19 Weekly Report, provided as a PDF (above), updated every Thursday.

Weekly Test Rate by County of Residence

• Downloadable data file: Weekly Percent of Tests Positive by County of Residence (CSV)
  • This data is the percent of positive tests by county of residence in Minnesota per 10,000 people by week of specimen collection.
  • Only tests reported by laboratories reporting both positive and negative results are included in positivity calculations. Percent positive is the percent of positive tests from the total number of tests by county of residence.
  • Data is reported by MMWR week, which is the week of the year assigned by the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System for the purposes of disease reporting and publishing.
  • This data is part of the COVID-19 Weekly Report, provided as a PDF (above), updated every Thursday.

Weekly Case Rate by County of Residence

• Downloadable data file: Weekly Case Rate by County of Residence (CSV)
  • This data is the number of cases by county of residence in Minnesota by week of specimen collection.
  • Confirmed cases are individual people who live in Minnesota that tested positive for COVID-19. People are only counted as a case once, even if multiple positive tests are recorded for a person.
  • Data is reported by MMWR week, which is the week of the year assigned by the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System for the purposes of disease reporting and publishing.
  • This data is part of the COVID-19 Weekly Report, provided as a PDF (above), updated every Thursday.

Cases, Deaths, and No Longer Needing Isolation by County of Residence

• Downloadable data file: Cases, Deaths, and No Longer Needing Isolation by County of Residence (CSV)
  • This file contains data by county of residence for:
    • Confirmed cases (cumulative)
      Confirmed cases are individual people who live in Minnesota that tested positive for COVID-19. People are only counted as a case once, even if multiple positive tests are recorded for a person.
    • Deaths (cumulative)
      Deaths are confirmed deaths due to COVID-19, and have a positive laboratory-confirmed PCR test for SARS-CoV-2, and either COVID-19 is listed on the death certificate, or clinical history/autopsy findings that provide evidence that the death is related to COVID-19 without an alternative cause (i.e. drowning, homicide, trauma, etc.).
    • Cases no longer needing isolation (cumulative)
      Patients no longer needing isolation represents individuals with confirmed COVID-19 who no longer need to self-isolate. MDH does not track cases over time to determine whether they have fully recovered.
  • This data is part of the COVID-19 Weekly Report, provided as a PDF (above), updated every Thursday.

Confirmed Cases by Zip Code of Residence

• Downloadable data file: Positive Cases by Zip Code of Residence (CSV): 10/15/2020
  Cumulative confirmed cases by Zip Code of residence. Updated every Thursday.
  Previous weeks:
  • Downloadable data file: Positive Cases by Zip Code of Residence (CSV): 10/8/2020
  • Downloadable data file: Positive Cases by Zip Code of Residence (CSV): 10/1/2020
  • Downloadable data file: Positive Cases by Zip Code of Residence (CSV): 9/24/2020

Archive

Past weekly reports will not be updated to reflect changes due to data review or reporting methods.

• Weekly COVID-19 Report: 10/8/2020 (PDF)
• Weekly COVID-19 Report: 10/1/2020 (PDF)
  • Weekly COVID-19 Report: 10/1/2020 School Data Addendum (PDF)
• Weekly COVID-19 Report: 9/24/2020 (PDF)
• Weekly COVID-19 Report: 9/17/2020 (PDF)
• Weekly COVID-19 Report: 9/10/2020 (PDF)
• Weekly COVID-19 Report: 9/3/2020 (PDF)
• Weekly COVID-19 Report: 8/27/2020 (PDF)
• Weekly COVID-19 Report: 8/20/2020 (PDF)
• Weekly COVID-19 Report: 8/13/2020 (PDF)
• Weekly COVID-19 Report: 8/6/2020 (PDF)
• Weekly COVID-19 Report: 7/30/2020 (PDF)
• Weekly COVID-19 Report: 7/23/2020 (PDF)
• Weekly COVID-19 Report: 7/16/2020 (PDF)
• Weekly COVID-19 Report: 7/9/2020 (PDF)
• Weekly COVID-19 Report: 7/2/2020 (PDF)
• Weekly COVID-19 Report: 6/25/2020 (PDF)
• Weekly COVID-19 Report: 6/18/2020 (PDF)
• Weekly COVID-19 Report: 6/11/2020 (PDF)
• Weekly COVID-19 Report: 6/4/2020 (PDF)
• Weekly COVID-19 Report: 5/28/2020 (PDF)
• Weekly COVID-19 Report: 5/21/2020 (PDF)
• Weekly COVID-19 Report: 5/14/2020 (PDF)

Other Data and Statistics

• Data for K-12 Schools: 14-day COVID-19 Case Rate by County (PDF)
  This document provides data that can be used by schools in making decisions about their safe learning model.
  Updated: 10/15/20, updated every Thursday.

• Situation Update for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
• Minnesota COVID-19 Public Dashboard
• Minnesota's COVID-19 Response and Preparation Capacity
• CDC: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Cases in the U.S.
• Minnesota COVID-19 Modeling
• Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome In Children (MIS-C) Statistics