4 St. Michael-Albertville Schools On Coronavirus Outbreak List

ST. MICHAEL, MN — The number of St. Michael-Albertville schools on the Minnesota Department of Health’s list of facilities with recent coronavirus outbreaks stayed at four this week.

St. Michael-Albertville Senior High School was joined on the list last week by Fieldstone Elementary School and St. Michael-Albertville Middle School East. St. Michael-Albertville Middle School West in Albertville was also on the state’s coronavirus outbreak list last week.

Those four schools remained on the most recent list, which updates every Thursday.

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The COVID-19 data dashboard for the St. Michael-Albertville School District shows there have been 135 total coronavirus cases in the district since Sept. 7. The district serves about 6,850 students.

There have also been 22 total coronavirus cases this school year among 873 staff members, according to the district’s dashboard.

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Seventeen Wright County schools were included on this week’s list, three more than last week.

A school is deemed to have 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.

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"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."