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Good Samaritan Society has COVID-19 exposure

Ten people have now been hospitalized because of COVID-19 in Freeborn County at some point during their illness, according to the Freeborn County Public Health Department. Of that number, four currently remain hospitalized.

The county saw six new lab-confirmed cases on Friday, bringing the county’s total to 108 cases.

The new cases included one person under 10, three people in their 30s, one person in their 50s and one person in their 70s, the county department stated.

The Minnesota Department of Health listed Good Samaritan Society in Albert Lea as one of the congregate care facilities that has now had exposures, but it is unclear how many people may have been impacted. The department defines exposure as a person diagnosed with COVID-19 who either visited, worked or lived at a congregate care facility while they were contagious.

The county public health department stated 74 of the county’s cases are out of isolation and recovering from their illness.

Around the area, Faribault County had two new cases, pushing its total to 15, and Mower County had 23 new cases, increasing its total to 254 cases. 

Steele County saw two new cases and has now had 151 cases, and Waseca County had one new case, increasing its total to 26.

Statewide, there were 590 new cases reported, increasing the state’s total positive cases to 23,531.

Twenty-nine new deaths were reported from Anoka, Dakota, Hennepin, Itasca, Nicollet, Nobles, Ramsey, Stearns and Washington counties. That increased the total across the state to 996, of which 811 resided in long-term care or assisted living facilities.

The department said 592 are currently hospitalized, including 259 in intensive care.

Across the state, 233,873 COVID-19 tests have been completed, including 23,165 through the state public health lab and 210,708 through external laboratories.

 

Confirmed COVID-19 cases

County	Cases	Deaths
Aitkin	7	0
Anoka	1,324	67
Becker	36	0
Beltrami	14	0
Benton	175	3
Big Stone	4	0
Blue Earth	137	1
Brown	14	2
Carlton	73	0
Carver	201	2
Cass	13	2
Chippewa	49	1
Chisago	60	1
Clay	420	25
Clearwater	3	0
Cook	0	0
Cottonwood	69	0
Crow Wing	64	1
Dakota	1,230	51
Dodge	50	0
Douglas	40	0
Faribault	15	0
Fillmore	17	1
Freeborn	108	0
Goodhue	62	3
Grant	4	0
Hennepin	7,932	593
Houston	2	0
Hubbard	2	0
Isanti	32	0
Itasca	54	9
Jackson	39	0
Kanabec	11	1
Kandiyohi	486	1
Kittson	1	0
Koochiching	7	0
Lac qui Parle	3	0
Lake	1	0
Lake of the Woods	0	0
Le Sueur	44	1
Lincoln	5	0
Lyon	43	0
McLeod	33	0
Mahnomen	6	1
Marshall	10	0
Martin	129	5
Meeker	44	0
Mille Lacs	19	1
Morrison	45	0
Mower	254	1
Murray	37	0
Nicollet	83	9
Nobles	1,503	4
Norman	12	0
Olmsted	594	10
Otter Tail	63	0
Pennington	17	0
Pine	89	0
Pipestone	10	0
Polk	60	2
Pope	9	0
Ramsey	2,790	115
Red Lake	4	0
Redwood	4	0
Renville	5	0
Rice	438	2
Rock	22	0
Roseau	2	0
St. Louis	118	14
Scott	394	2
Sherburne	226	2
Sibley	16	0
Stearns	2,001	13
Steele	151	0
Stevens	2	0
Swift	18	0
Todd	302	0
Traverse	3	0
Wabasha	17	0
Wadena	8	0
Waseca	26	0
Washington	598	31
Watonwan	69	0
Wilkin	11	3
Winona	79	15
Wright	287	1
Yellow Medicine	6	0
Unknown/missing	66	0