SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) — For the first time since America’s COVID-19 outbreak started, a federal public health agency released county-level testing data.
A test positivity rate describes the percentage of tests conducted in a particular area that return a positive result.
Minnehaha county had a test positivity rate of 13.7%.
Lincoln county had a test positivity rate of 10.7%.
South Dakota as a whole had a test positivity rate of 21.9%, ranking it 5th highest in the nation.