Thursday COVID-19 data shows 931 new confirmed infections in Minnesota. But the numbers also show a big rebound in testing, suggesting this case spike may be largely due to more testing rather than greater community spread.
Two other closely watched metrics — the number of people currently hospitalized (242) and patients needing intensive care (132) inched downward from Wednesday, part of a downward trend in those cases since the start of September and far lower than their late-May peaks.
State public health leaders are expected to brief reporters at 2 p.m. Of the 86,722 confirmed cases of the disease in the pandemic as of Thursday, about 92 percent of those identified have recovered to the point they no longer need to be isolated.