Minnesota enters the first full week of 2021 with COVID-19 numbers in a much better place than they were a month ago. But there have been signs in recent days that a weekslong downward trend in new cases, hospital admissions and test positivity rates might be leveling off. Sunday's update from state health officials covered two days' worth of data, catching up from the New Year's Day holiday. That temporarily muddles the weekly averages that can show pandemic trends better than the day-to-day numbers. But prior to Sunday's updated numbers, there were signs of a possible stall in what had been a steady decline in several key metrics.