Weekly summary, travel restrictions for South Dakotans, and link to daily data report are given below.
Brookings
- 1,223 cases: 226 new cases this week vs. 151 last week
- 333 active cases (record high)
- 30 ever hospitalized: 11 new admissions this week vs. 6 last week
- No new deaths
- Substantial community spread. For moderate spread need less than 34 cases in a week.
- Test positivity continues to be high at 36% (WHO recommends < 5%).
South Dakota
- 33,836 cases: 4,911 new cases this week vs. 3,866 last week
- 8,388 active cases (record high)
- 2,146 ever hospitalized: 260 new admissions this week vs. 244 last week
- As of today, 304 individuals are hospitalized with COVID.
- 323 total deaths: 35 deaths this week vs. 40 last week
- Test positivity continues to be high at 37% (record high; WHO recommends < 5%).
K-12 & Higher Education
USA
- 8.38 million cases: 395,801 new cases this week vs. 355,086 last week
- 224,730 total deaths: 5,035 deaths this week vs. 5,084 last week
World
- 40.26 million cases: 2.53 million new cases this week vs. 2.35 million last week
- 1.11 million deaths: 36,912 deaths this week vs. 39,703 last week
Travel Restrictions:
As of October 14th, the following states require travelers from South Dakota to quarantine (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/travel/state-travel-restrictions.html [website updated regularly]):
| Alaska | Illinois (Chicago) | New Hampshire | Ohio |
| Connecticut | Kentucky | New Jersey | Pennsylvania |
| Washington D.C. | Maine | New Mexico | Rhode Island |
| Hawaii | Massachusetts | New York | Vermont |
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