COVID-19 in South Dakota: 198 total new cases; Death toll rises to 2,041; Active cases at 290; 1 new Delta variant cases - KELOLAND.com

(KELO) — Active COVID-19 cases increased by 82 in Wednesday’s update from the South Dakota Department of Health.

Minnehaha County has the highest active case count at 74, while Pennington County has 65 active cases.

There were 198 new total cases reported on Wednesday; there were 109 new total cases reported the week before.

The state’s total case count is now at 124,948, up from July 14 (124,750).

Total recovered cases are now at 122,617, up from last Wednesday (122,502).

Total persons who tested negative is now at 369,649, up from last Wednesday (367,659).

The latest seven-day PCR test positivity rate reported by the DOH is 4.4% (July 13 through July 19).

There was one more case of the Delta variant (B.1.617.2) confirmed in South Dakota in the past week.

There’s been 171 cases of the B.1.1.7 (alpha variant), 15 cases of B.1.429 (epsilon variant) and three cases of P.1.

(gamma variant), two cases of the B.1.351 (beta variant) and one case of B.1.427 (epsilon variant).