St. Michael Catholic School Added To Coronavirus Outbreak List

ST. MICHAEL, MN — One St. Michael school was added Thursday to the Minnesota Department of Health’s weekly list of facilities with recent coronavirus outbreaks.

St. Michael Catholic School joined five St. Michael-Albertville schools on the list after reporting between five and nine coronavirus cases from Sept. 19 to Oct. 2, and again from Oct. 3-16, according to the MDH.

The most recent list, released Thursday, also includes Big Woods Elementary, Fieldstone Elementary, St. Michael-Albertville Senior High School and both of the district's middle schools.

The COVID-19 data dashboard for the St. Michael-Albertville School District shows there have been 183 total coronavirus cases among the district's 6,850 students since Sept. 7.

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The district has also reported 34 total coronavirus cases since Sept. 7 among 873 staff members, according to the district's dashboard.

Twenty-one Wright County schools were included on this week's list, up from 18 last week.

The total number of Minnesota schools on the coronavirus outbreak list climbed to 559, up from 535 last week and 497 the week before.

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A school is considered 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.

"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."