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No new COVID-19 deaths reported Monday Jonathan Ellis, Sioux Falls Argus Leader © Erin Bormett / Argus Leader Avera Health workers provide COVID-19 tests on Wednesday, January 6, at a testing site set up in a former car dealership in Sioux Falls.Cars pass through an Avera Health COVID-19 testing site on Wednesday, January 6, at a former car dealership in Sioux Falls. Fifty-four additional people tested positive for COVID-19, the South Dakota Department of Health reported Mond...

Six of the latest deaths came among residents in a long-term care facility. An additional 131 people tested positive for a total of 108,944 South Dakotans who have tested positive for the coronavirus. Forty-five of those new infections occurred among Minnehaha County residents and seven among Lincoln County residents. Six new cases were discovered in Brown County and four in Codington County. A total of 121 people were hospitalized, including 27 receiving intensive care and 17 on ventilators. T...

The South Dakota Dakota Department of Health reported six additional deaths of people who had COVID-19 on Thursday. An additional 174 new cases were also reported, which included 40 among Minnehaha County residents and 11 in Lincoln County. Brown County saw 20 new infections and Codington County three. The additional deaths brought the total to 1,788. Three were 80 or older, one 70-79 and two were 60-69. Four were women and two were men.  There were 2,517 active cases and 126 people hospitaliz...

Sister says woman lost during snowstorm had a heart of gold © Submitted Amy Dougherty Amy Dougherty left her home near Andover for her job at Sun Dial Manor in Bristol on Dec. 23, but she never arrived. More than five weeks later, on Jan. 29, her body was discovered in her vehicle in a slough just west of Bristol. Her vehicle left the roadway during a snowstorm, entering the slough where Dougherty died. During a search that lasted more than a month, family and friends waited and wondered a...

Average new COVID-19 infections fall to lowest level in 5 months The South Dakota Department of Health reported 116 new COVID-19 infections and one additional death Tuesday. The new positive infections included 44 Minnehaha County residents and eight Lincoln County residents. Twelve Brown County residents tested positive, as did one person from Codington County.  The latest death was a female aged 50-59, bringing the total to 1,779 South Dakotans who died of, or with, COVID-19. With Tuesdays ...

Born alive abortion measure criticized by medical community, passes South Dakota House A measure to require physicians to save the life of an infant born following a botched abortion sailed to victory in the South Dakota State House of Representatives on Thursday, Jan. 28, in Pierre. The vote was along party lines. Written By: Christopher Vondracek | × South Dakota legislator Rep. Fred Deutsch, a Republican from rural Codington County, stands up on the House floor t...

More than a third of the members of the South Dakota Statehouse stood up on Tuesday, Jan. 26, initiating a "smoke out" and reviving a bill defeated earlier in the day that, if enacted, would prohibit transgender persons from updating birth certificates to reflect their sex designation. The measure has been decried by LGBTQ advocates.

Eleven more South Dakotans with COVID-19 were reported to have died on Friday, while an additional 316 people tested positive for coronavirus. The 11 additional deaths brought the statewide total to 1,684. Three were among residents of a long-term care facility. Almost half of all fatalities have occurred in long-term care settings. Six were aged 80 or older, two were 70-79, two were 60-69 and one person was in the 40s. The 316 new positive infections included 84 Minnehaha County residents, 14 ...

The number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 in South Dakota fell below 200 for the first time since Sept. 25, the South Dakota Department of Health reported Wednesday.

The number of COVID-19 patients occupying intensive care beds also continues to trend downward.