SUNDAY UPDATE: Over 21,000 new vaccinations reported across the state
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services reported the state's positivity rate as 5.3% on Sunday.
The increase in positivity comes along with an additional 267 confirmed cases of the coronavirus, bringing the total to 515,830.
The state also added 148 probable cases of the virus to the dashboard Sunday. In total, 90,154 probable cases of COVID-19 were discovered through antigen testing.
No new deaths were added. DHSS has recorded a total of 9,196 deaths in the state since the start of the virus.
The state dashboard says new cases are up by about 21.6% over the past seven days. The positivity rate has jumped 0.7 percentage point in that same time, while tests are up more than 6.6%.Â
In the state's healthcare system, 686 people are dealing with COVID-19 infections. Of those, 171 are in the ICU and 78 are on ventilators.
About 43% of Missouri residents have gotten at least one dose of coronavirus vaccine. For Missourians 18 and older that number is about 53%.
In total, 4,711,900 of the vaccine have been put into the arms of residents in the Show-Me State. In the past 7 days, the average daily doses given was 12,754.
