No Woodbury Schools Added This Week To Coronavirus Outbreak List

WOODBURY, MN — Four Woodbury schools remain on the Minnesota Department of Health’s list of facilities with recent coronavirus outbreaks.

Woodbury High, East Ridge High, Woodbury Leadership Academy and New Life Academy were added to the list two weeks ago by Minnesota health officials. All four were included on the most recent list, which was released Thursday.

The COVID-19 data dashboard for the South Washington Schools, which includes East Ridge and Woodbury high schools, shows there have been 74 total coronavirus cases this academic year across its four high schools, as of Oct. 14.

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Twenty-one 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 497 last week to 535 on Thursday.

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."