Seventeen COVID-19 cases were reported the previous two weeks by the Center for Well-Being, ending a four week streak of an increasing case count.

Employee positive tests rose from zero to five and positive student tests dropped from 17 to 12 between the weeks of March 20 and March 27.

The week of March 27 saw 13 cases from the St. Paul campus and four from the Minneapolis campus, and during the week of March 20, 15 cases were reported from the St. Paul campus and two from the Minneapolis campus.

As of Sunday, the Minnesota Department of Health has reported 1,841,585 Minnesotans have received at least one dose of the vaccine and 1,192,051 have completed the vaccine series.

The MDH has also reported 530,662 positive cases since the beginning of the pandemic.

According to the university’s COVID-19 Dashboard, more than 50% of quarantine spaces are available and the university’s contact tracing staff are able to interview 90-100% of positive cases reported to the university within 24 hours over a seven day average.

St. Thomas releases COVID-19 data every Monday, and is available on the COVID-19 Dashboard.

Joey Swanson can be reached at swan5350@stthomas.edu.