Coronavirus In MN: State Allocates $6.9M For Temporary Storage Of Human Remains During Pandemic
Minnesota state officials say they are negotiating to purchase a warehouse facility to temporarily store bodies of COVID-19 victims.
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Minnesota state officials say they are negotiating to purchase a warehouse facility to temporarily store bodies of COVID-19 victims.
Additional lab-confirmed cases in Minnesota continue to increase by the hundreds in the state as testing breached 100,000.
After learning about the positive case, Target says its team worked "quickly to deep clean and sanitize the store."
As coronavirus hotspots erupted at major U.S. meatpacking plants, experts criticized extremely tight working conditions that made the factories natural high risk contagion locations. But some Midwestern politicians have pointed the finger at the workers' living conditions, suggesting crowded homes bear some blame.
As we stand entering the third month, it appears that Minnesotans are no longer at the head of the class, nationwide.
Eighty-percent of Minnesota's deaths have been reported in nursing homes and long-term care facilities.
Workers at yet another Minnesota plant are sick with COVID-19.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has announced a "battle plan" to protect those living and working in long-term care (LTC) facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A mechanical engineering professor at the University of Minnesota came up with the design, and it got clinic leaders excited.
Minneapolis Community and Technical College graduates had looked forward to celebrating their accomplishments with a commencement ceremony held at the Minneapolis Convention Center. But for the class of 2020, COVID-19 has changed all that.
A New Hope nursing home that has been a repeat violator of care standards has become the site of one of the state's largest coronavirus outbreaks with 44 deaths and another 68 residents sickened by COVID-19.
The Minnesota Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) says it's calling on federal officials to investigate conditions at a central Minnesota meat packing plant where workers are reporting unsafe conditions amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
As COVID-19 testing in Minnesota has dramatically increased this week, so too have the number of cases. On Thursday, the state added another 786 cases to its tally, which is now over 9,000 total.
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The USG plant in Cloquet, Minnesota, has temporarily suspended operations after two workers tested positive for COVID-19.
