4 Woodbury Schools Remain On Coronavirus Outbreak List: MDH

WOODBURY, MN — The number of Woodbury schools on the Minnesota Department of Health’s list of facilities with recent coronavirus outbreaks stayed at four this week.

East Ridge High, Woodbury High, Woodbury Leadership Academy and New Life Academy were added to the list last week by Minnesota health officials.

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

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The COVID-19 data dashboard for the South Washington County School District, which includes East Ridge and Woodbury high schools, shows there have been 58 total coronavirus cases at its four high schools since the start of the 2021-22 school year.

There have been 39 cases among the district’s middle schools and 89 cases at its elementary schools since Aug. 31, according to the district’s dashboard. The district serves about 18,400 students at 24 schools.

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Twenty Washington 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 405 last week to 497 on Thursday.

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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.

"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."