(KELO) — 270 new total COVID-19 cases and seven deaths were announced by the State Department of Health on Friday.
On March 25, the state reported 14 cases of the UK variant (B.117), five cases of the California variant (B.1.429) and one case of the South African variant (B.1.351).
According to the Department of health, a total of 62 COVID-19 variant virus cases have been identified in Brookings (5), Brown (4), Clark (1), Davison (8), Day (2), Hanson (1), Hughes (1), Lincoln (2), Lyman (1), Marshall (2), McCook (6), Minnehaha (18), Pennington (1), Roberts (5), Yankton (3), and Union (2) Counties.
The state’s total case count is 119,467, compared to 119,197 on Thursday.
Seven new deaths were reported by the Department of Health.
According to the DOH, 247,822 doses of the Pfizer vaccine have been administered with 12,556 doses of the Janssen vaccine and 220,723 of the Moderna vaccine given out to a total number of 292,561 persons.
Food and Drug Administration grant emergency use approval to start administering the COVID-19 vaccine to children ages 12 to 15.
The day before, on April 8, 2020, the South Dakota Department of Health announced that more than 80 cases had been linked to the Sioux Falls plant.
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