Minnesota records 6 new COVID deaths, 567 new infections

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota health officials on Monday reported six newly confirmed deaths from COVID-19, raising the state’s death toll to 1,712 since the pandemic began.

Of the new deaths, five were in private homes and one in a nursing home or assisted-living facility. All of those deaths were people 60 or older.

The Minnesota Department of Health also reported 567 newly lab-confirmed infections of the coronavirus. That raises the total of confirmed infections in the state to 65,716. Health officials also reported 286 patients were hospitalized Monday, with 155 of them in intensive care. The Star Tribune reports total hospitalizations in Minnesota dropped below 300 for the first time this month on Sunday.