August 19 MN Department of Health report shows 12 new COVID-19 local cases
The long wait for when the latest COVID-19 surge will arrive locally is over.
After posting just four new COVID-19 cases between the period of June 17 and August 11 this summer, the rural and city zip code areas of Brooten (56316), Belgrade (56312) and Elrosa (56325) have posted the number of 12 new cases between the seven-day period of August 12 (last Thursday) and yesterday, August 18. The number 12 in one week is the highest number since April of this year. These figures are from the Minnesota Department of Health.
This breaks down as follows:
Belgrade 56312: five new cases
Brooten 56316: seven new cases
Elrosa 56325: NO new cases.
The population living in these zip code areas is approximately 4,300 people. The Belgrade zip code has over 2,600 people; the Brooten zip code has almost 1,500 people; and the Elrosa zip code includes about 230 men, women and children. I'm most tuned in with the Brooten zip code, and from May 20 through August 12, this area has had just two new COVID-19 cases. Now the cumulative total for COVID-19 cases from January 2020 through today is 168 (about 11 percent).
For a little more perspective, from January 14 of this year through March 25 of this year, the Brooten zip code area posted a total of nine new cases. In that same time span, the zip code area of Belgrade posted 33 new cases. The local spring surge started in the final week of March and then sputtered out in the third week of May.
The May 20, 2021 MDH report showed 11 new cases in our B-B-E zip codes. That number plummeted to zero a week later in the May 27 report just as essentially all COVID-19 restrictions were removed from the powers-that-be. The May 13 report showed four new cases, the May 6 report showed five new cases, and the April 29 report showed 15 new cases.
Other new COVID-19 weekly B-B-E zip code case figures from last spring:
April 22: 12 new cases
April 15: 25 new cases (this marked our spring peak)
April 8: 10 new cases
April 1: 10 new cases
March 25: 2 new cases
March 18: 5 new cases
March 11: NO new cases
March 4: 5 new cases
February 25: 6 new cases
February 18: 4 new cases
February 11: 3 new cases
February 4: 6 new cases
January 28: 5 new cases.
Back to the present: below is the latest case count increase for the past week by zip code area:
Willmar 56201 - 57 new cases
Benson 56215 - 18 new cases
Kerkhoven 56252 - 1 new case
Morris 56267 - 7 new cases
Montevideo 56265 - 34 new cases
Murdock 56271 - 3 new cases
New London 56273 - 13 new cases
Pennock 56279 - 1 new case
Spicer 56288 - 13 new cases
Sunburg - 3 new cases
Alexandria 56308 - 50 new cases
Belgrade 56312 - 5 new cases
Brooten 56316 - 7 new cases
Elrosa 56325 - NO new cases
Glenwood 56334 - 20 new cases
Greenwald 56335 - 3 new cases
Melrose 56352 - 4 new cases
Osakis 56360 - 4 new cases
Paynesville 56362 - 11 new cases
St. Martin 56376 - NO new cases
Sauk Centre 56378 - 17 new cases
Starbuck 56381 - 6 new cases
Villard 56385 - NO new cases.
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