Woodbury High Removed From MDH Coronavirus Outbreak List

WOODBURY, MN — Woodbury High School was taken off the Minnesota Department of Health’s weekly list of facilities with recent coronavirus outbreaks.

However, four Woodbury schools remain on the most recent list released Thursday, after Saint Ambrose Catholic School was added.

It joins East Ridge High School, New Life Academy and Woodbury Leadership Academy, which have been on the state's list for the past several weeks.

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Schools are taken off the list when they have not reported a new case for 28 days, according to MDH officials.

The COVID-19 data dashboard for the South Washington Schools, which includes East Ridge and Woodbury high schools, shows there have been 78 total coronavirus cases this academic year across its four high schools, as of Oct. 21.

Just four new cases were reported across the district's high schools from Oct. 15-21, the dashboard shows.

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The number of Washington County schools with recent coronavirus outbreaks grew from 21 last week to 23 on Thursday, according to MDH officials.

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

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.

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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."