8 Dakota County Schools On MDH's Recent COVID-19 Outbreak List

DAKOTA COUNTY, MN — After a month of having zero schools on the Minnesota Department of Health's list of schools that have had recent outbreaks of COVID-19, Dakota County has eight schools on this week's list.

The Dakota County schools on the list are:

• Apple Valley Senior High School, Apple Valley
• William Byrne Elementary School, Burnsville
• Woodland Elementary School, Eagan
• Hastings Middle School, Hastings
• Cherry View Elementary School, Lakeville
• McGuire Middle School, Lakeville
• Lakeville North High School, Lakeville
• Two Rivers (Formerly Henry Sibley) High School, West St. Paul

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."