SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota's COVID-19 update released Tuesday showed no new deaths for a second straight day, although the state Department of Corrections on Monday reported that a sixth prison inmate has died due to the coronavirus.
State health officials confirmed 444 positive tests in the past day, increasing the total number to 101,076 since the start of the pandemic. The death toll remained at 1,513.
The inmate whose death was reported on the corrections website Monday was being held in the Sioux Falls Community Work Center. Three inmates at the Mike Durfee State Prison in Springfield and two at the Jameson Annex to the state penitentiary in Sioux Falls died earlier of COVID-19 complications.
The number of hospitalizations increased by two, to 270. Of those patients, 56 are in intensive care units and 35 are using ventilators.
There were 631 new cases per 100,000 people in South Dakota over the past two weeks, which ranks 33rd in the country for new cases per capita, according to The COVID Tracking Project. One in every 295 people in South Dakota tested positive in the past week.
Tuesday's report showed that 308 people received their first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine in the last day, increasing the total numbers of those inoculated to 27,260.