St. Michael School Added To Weekly Coronavirus Outbreak List

ST. MICHAEL, MN — Five St. Michael-Albertville schools are on the Minnesota Department of Health’s weekly list of facilities with recent coronavirus outbreaks.

Big Woods Elementary joined four other St. Michael-Albertville schools on the most recent list, which was released Thursday.

Fieldstone Elementary, St. Michael-Albertville Senior High School, St. Michael-Albertville Middle School East and St. Michael-Albertville Middle School West in Albertville have been on the list for the past several weeks.

The COVID-19 data dashboard for the St. Michael-Albertville School District shows there have been 167 total coronavirus cases among the district's 6,850 students since Sept. 7.

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There have also been 27 total coronavirus cases this school year among 873 staff members, according to the district's dashboard.

Eighteen Wright County schools were included on this week's list, one more than last week.

The total number of Minnesota schools on the coronavirus outbreak list jumped from 497 last week to 535 on Thursday.

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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."