Only 1 Dakota County School Is Still On MDH's COVID-19 Outbreak List

DAKOTA COUNTY, MN — As cases of COVID-19 continue to fall throughout the state, only one Dakota County school remains on the Minnesota Department of Health's list of schools that have had recent outbreaks of the coronavirus.

The final Dakota County school on the list is Highland Elementary School in Apple Valley. It will be removed once it goes 28 days without reporting new cases.

There are 22 total schools on the list in the entire state.

The list is updated every Thursday.

Editor's note: This information came from the Minnesota Department of Health. To view the list of schools on the current list, click here and search for "Cases in Pre-K through Grade 12 School Buildings."

A school has an outbreak when it reports five or more confirmed cases of the virus in students or staff who were in the building while infectious during the most recent two-week reporting period.

"School buildings listed may not have ongoing transmission," MDH noted. "School buildings that have not reported a new case for 28 days will be removed. If five or more cases are reported in a school building in a subsequent 2-week period, they will once again be listed."