2 Mendota Heights Schools Added To MDH's COVID Outbreak List

MENDOTA HEIGHTS, MN — Two Mendota Heights schools were recently added to the Minnesota Department of Health's list of schools that have had recent outbreaks of COVID-19.

Mendota Elementary School and St. Thomas Academy are the most recent adds to the list, amid a surge of the omicron variant.

Dakota County has 79 schools on the list.

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Mendota Heights has three schools on the list:

• Mendota Elementary School
  • Reported between 5-9 cases from Nov. 28-Dec. 11. MDH said it will post more recent data when it is available.
• Friendly Hills Middle School
  • Reported between 5-9 cases from Oct. 31-Nov. 13. The school remains on the list and MDH said it will post more recent data when it is available.
• St. Thomas Academy
  • Reported between 5-9 cases from Nov. 14-27. The school remains on the list and MDH said it will post more recent data when it is available.

The list is updated every Thursday.

Editor's note: This information came from the Minnesota Department of Health. The 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."

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