Gov. Kristi Noem plans to announce a "back to normal" plan on Tuesday to reopen businesses in South Dakota.

The plan will include changes and recommendations on her executive orders as well as guidance for many entities, including allowing elective surgeries, she said. She said Tuesday's announcement will also include new projections for the state.

"As people go back to normal activities and daily activities, this virus will spread more. There will be more positives, which is just a fact that we need to realize will happen," Noem said.

Noem said officials are focusing on the number of hospitalizations to track how the state is doing with the coronavirus. Sixty-one people were hospitalized with the coronavirus on Monday and the state is prepared for more, she said. The state is evaluating capacity and is still prepared to move forward on opening supplement units in Sioux Falls and Rapid City, she said.

Minnehaha County reaches 1,880 cases

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in South Dakota increased by 33 on Monday.

Cases in Minnehaha County increased by 26 to a total of 1,880, and Lincoln County's cases increased by three to a total of 131 cases, according to the South Dakota Department of Health. The number of deaths remained at 11 on Monday.

South Dakota has a total of 2,245 COVID-19 cases. That doesn't include people who show symptoms or are asymptomatic but are not tested. The state remained at 11 deaths on Monday.

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The state has 918 active COVID-19 cases, according to the state department of health. Recoveries statewide increased to 1,316. The state health department says 150 total people have been hospitalized during the pandemic, and 61 are currently hospitalized.

The state health department released the racial demographics of the COVID-19 cases in South Dakota for the first time on Monday. Thirty-one percent of South Dakotans who have tested positive for the coronavirus are white, 20% are black, 19% are Hispanic, 12% are Asian and 4% are Native American, while 14% aren't categorized into a race, according to the state health department.

Health Secretary Kim Malsam-Rysdon noted that the coronavirus is disproportionately hitting South Dakota's minority groups.

For comparison, South Dakota's demographics are 84.4% white, 2.4% black, 9% Native American, 1.7% Asian and 4.1% Hispanic, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. In Sioux Falls, where most of the state's coronavirus cases are located, 84.5% of residents are white. 6% are black, 2.4% are Native American, 2.5% are Asian and 5.3% are Hispanic.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs reported on Monday that 14 of South Dakota's COVID-19 cases are VA patients: 13 at the Sioux Falls VA Medical Center and one at the Black Hills VA Health Care System.

Smithfield's plan to reopen

Noem said she's hopeful Smithfield Foods will produce a plan this week to reopen its Sioux Falls plant. She said it's up to Smithfield to set a reopening schedule.

Additionally, the state plans to have "widespread testing" of Smithfield employees to keep the plant operational after it reopens and ensuring the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's guidelines will be put in place, Noem said.

"Our hope is that that plant can get back up and online as soon as possible considering it's critical infrastructure and vital to our nation's food supply," Noem said.

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Malsam-Rysdon said she talked with Smithfield officials on Friday about the company's next steps to reopen. She said she hopes Smithfield will provide state health officials with a report this week about what they'll be changing in the plant. Smithfield said some of the recommendations will be more difficult to implement than others due to the plant's layout, but they have a shared goal of safely reopening the plant, Malsam-Rysdon said.

She said the state health department plans to continue to support Smithfield in ensuring it has equipment and procedures in place to keep workers safe after it reopens. The department has been conversations with the union at the plant and that will provide an avenue for ensuring workers' concerns are being addressed. Noem added that the state has been working to acquire personal protective equipment for the Smithfield workers.

There are now 850 Smithfield employees who have tested positive and 245 non-employees who have tested positive after being in contact with an infected employee, according to the state health department. That's an increase of 23 employees and 39 close contacts who have tested positive since Friday.

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State epidemiologist Josh Clayton said state officials anticipate that there would be a decreasing number of cases over time connected to any business that shut its doors.

No new cases were reported on Monday in Brown County, where the DemKota Beef Ranch is located. Nine DemKota workers tested positive last week and state health officials visited the plant last week to assist the company with curbing the spread. Anyone at the plant showing symptoms can be tested for the coronavirus and the zero increase in cases on Monday is reflective of the situation there, Clayton said.

Federal funding

Noem continued Monday to reiterate that states should have more flexibility in using federal funds earmarked for the coronavirus response.

She said she spoke with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., about her request over the weekend and spoke about it on a call with the White House and the governors on Monday.

South Dakota is receiving $1.25 billion in federal funding that can only be used on the coronavirus response.

The state has a "very tricky" funding situation in South Dakota where most of its revenue comes from the sales tax, which has been "dramatically impacted" in the pandemic, and the state Constitution requires a balanced budget, Noem said.

Without the flexibility to use those federal funds to fill the tax revenue losses, "I may literally be leaving tens, if not hundreds, of millions of dollars on the table while simultaneously making huge cuts to education and the funding of nursing homes," she said.