(St. Paul, MN) — The Minnesota Department of Health says there were just under one-thousand new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday. The MDH reported 998 newly confirmed coronavirus cases, for a decrease of more than 100 cases compared to Monday. Eleven additional deaths were reported, bringing to overall death total in Minnesota since the beginning of the pandemic to over 71-hundred. Doctors also reported that the number of Minnesotans who are considered fully vaccinated in approaching two-million-people.