COVID-19 in South Dakota: 234 total new cases; Death toll rises to 1,949; Active cases at 2,328 - KELOLAND.com

(KELO) — 234 new total COVID-19 cases were reported by the State Department of Health on Thursday.

While the difference in the total case count reported Thursday and Wednesday equals 234, when you add the PCR, or newly confirmed, cases (178) and antigen, or new probable, cases (57), there were 235 new cases.

One new death was reported by the Department of Health on Thursday.

Three new cases of the B.1.1.7 variant were added to the state’s dashboard for total of 55 found in South Dakota.

According to the DOH, 265,657 doses of the Pfizer vaccine have been administered with 16,265 doses of the Janssen vaccine and 232,236 of the Moderna vaccine given out to a total number of 309,103 persons.

(KELO) -- Another big step in the vaccine rollout -- starting tomorrow Sanford Health will be offering regularly scheduled walk-in hours for the public to receive a COVID-19 vaccine at Sanford Imagenetics.

(KELO) -- More young people are at risk because of the COVID-19 variants -- that's according to the South Dakota health department.

Four different variants are now reported in 16 counties in South Dakota but are likely already spreading in others.

So far, state health officials have confirmed 62 variant cases of COVID-19 in South Dakota