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SATURDAY UPDATES: Missouri’s 7-day positivity rate at 5 percent

COVID-19 Numbers 4-17-21
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COVID-19 Numbers 4-17-21

The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services reported 381 news cases of COVID-19 across the state, bringing the total to 496,157 through the pandemic.

The state also corrected the number of probable antigen cases throughout the pandemic to 80,412, more than a 11,000 case decrease. The state says it went through and deleted duplicates from the same person reporting a positive PCR test and an antigen test.

One news death was reported on Saturday. The total number of deaths caused by COVID-19 is now at 8,635 throughout the state.

Missouri's 7-day positivity rate hit 5% on Saturday, after climbing throughout the past few weeks.

The state's dashboard reported a substantial drop in COVID-19 relates hospitalizations on Saturday, now at 796. That is 22 less than Friday. Of those, 130 are on ventilators.

In the fight against COVID-19, 3,376,471 doses of the vaccine are in the arms of Missourians as of Saturday.

About 34% of the state's population has initiated the vaccine process, meaning 2,083,446 people have at least one shot.

Of those, 1,408,344 have completed the process, which is about 22.9% of the population. Patients are consider fully vaccinated two weeks after their second dose.

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