Gov. Tim Walz says he doesn’t want to impose new limits on life in Minnesota, but as COVID-19 cases increase, he warns that the state is at a “turning point” in the pandemic and that others want to replace their behavior or threaten to return to more restrictions.
“My purpose is to stay as open as we are now, to have to turn back the dial,” Walz told reporters Thursday as he joined a chorus of public fitness leaders, fearing that the next Labor Day holiday could simply boost the outbreak.state-to-state meetings.
The steep rises in new cases have led fitness officials to sound the alarm this week that the state is on the wrong track as the fall turns into winter and Minnesotans will have to remain vigilant, wear masks and distance the therself socially, even in occasional gatherings with friends and family.
The state government hit that point on Thursday.
Kris Ehresmann, state director of infectious diseases, said fitness industry analysts were aware of 56 cases in nine marriage-related counties in southwest Minnesota attended by 275 guests, many of whom took precautions.
Investigators, he added, are also tracking an ailment organization at a wedding attended by those who had also attended the mass motorcycle rally in Sturgis, SD.The rally from 7 to 16 August attracted some 460,000 people from all over the country.taken significant precautions against COVID-19 infections.
Officials here have already shown 50 directs in Minnesota similar to Sturgis, with one death.
“During a pandemic, a person’s movements and decisions are not limited to others alone.They’re the ones around them, at work, at home and wherever they go,” Ehresmann added.”Ultimately, none of us is an island.”
Walz said that while he is not adding new restrictions right now, he and his commissioners talk about a desire to balance economic and public aptitude considerations while tracking the disease.
“The virus will dictate where we’re going,” he said, acknowledging that new restrictions would further damage restaurants, bars and other businesses that have meetings of others in public spaces.
“We believe that adjustments to the behavior, mask command, and some other impulse can make all the difference,” he added.
Here are the COVID-19 statistics:
1837 deaths
78123 positive cases, 70175 isolation
272 hospitalized, 138 in ICU
1540107 tests, 1158388 other people tested
Walz’s comments came when Minnesota’s newest COVID-19 numbers continued to offer equivalent hope and concern.
Over the next week, Minnesota has noticed that its number of proven active instances was successful in a record.
The recent outbreak has not led to an increase in hospitalizations, as it was largely motivated at age 20, which are less likely to suffer symptoms severe enough to require hospitalization.
Officials, however, that news waves will eventually increase the number of hospitalizations.
At the regional level, dual cities and suburbs had been guilty of counting the new reported instances.However, this week’s data shows that new instances are increasing unless in Hennepin and Ramsey counties.
Thursday’s figures showed cases in southern and central Minnesota.
Cases in northern Minnesota resumed their ascent after jumping in July and then withdrew.Beltrami County, Bemidji’s home, has noticed a stable in recent weeks.The county reported 329 cases and one death on Thursday.
With recently shown instances emerging acutely in recent weeks and academics and youth returning to school, officials are involved in the desire to remain vigilant, opening the door to further spread.
Young adults are a concern.
Twenty-year-olds are the age organization with the number of cases shown in the state: more than 18,000 since the beginning of the pandemic, adding more than 10,000 among the elderly aged 20 to 24.
The number of young people of high school age is also increasing, exceeding 7,000 instances for academics aged 15 to 19.
Although they are less likely to revel in the worst effects of the disease, experts are concerned that other young people and young adults may pass it on to grandparents and other vulnerable populations, and that such epidemics would possibly paralyze attempts to absolutely reopen campuses for the person teaching.
Earlier this week, fitness officials noticed an increase in Winona County that characterizes the return of school-age students.Winona State University and St.Mary’s University are in Winona.The city also has a campus southeast of Minnesota State College.
The habit of Minnesotans in shops, restaurants, and other public places is no longer the challenge now, yet “informal meetings have proven to be a weak spot in our reaction to the pandemic,” Malcolm said this week.
He reiterated thursday that outbreaks of cases at the beginning of the pandemic can be easily attributed to meat-packing plants and other easily identifiable problems of origin, but that this is the case with the existing outbreak.
About a third of the new instances now come from a network of unknown origin, more than just before the last big party that brought together the inhabitants of Minnesota on July 4.
“Today we are in a more precarious scenario” compared to time,” Malcolm said.”There is a threat in this scenario. The virus is in the state.Outbreaks occur throughout the Array state … and we just need other people to be vigilant.
A wedding reception in southwest Minnesota resulted in 56 cases shown of COVID-19.
State fitness officials would say precisely where and when the occasion took place.
But the director of the Infectious Diseases Division, Kris Ehresmann, said Thursday that another 275 people attended the wedding in the hallway and were not dressed in masks.
There appear to be more than 56 cases, however, some participants chose not to be tested to extend the official infection rate.
“People who don’t get tested for COVID because they fear having an effect on themselves, their school or their network really aggravate the problem,” Ehresmann said.
She said those who received the coronavirus at the wedding came from nine other counties and included educators and long-term care workers.
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The Mall of America announced Thursday that it plans to eliminate more than two hundred jobs.
Bloomington’s megacenter was forced to close for 3 months at the start of the pandemic.
He reopened with limited capacity in June, but encountered monetary difficulties.
In a letter sent by legal mandate to the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development, managers say they plan to permanently eliminate 211 positions by the end of the month.
The leave for 178 workers can continue after September 30.
In a statement, mall spokesman Dan Jasper said managers hope to reinstate the license when advertising situations allow.
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DFL Governor Tim Walz and Senate Republican Majority Leader Paul Gazelka held a personal meeting Thursday to verify and clarify their differences over the state’s reaction to COVID-19.
Walz is expected to seek an extension of the emergency, even though Gazelka and other Republicans say it has been happening for too long.
“It will be almost a semester, part of a year of endless emergency powers in sight.That’s why we asked them to set safe parameters to find out the way out of here,” Gazelka said.the legislature can work with the governor, that the governor has all the decision-making.”
However, Gazelka believes he can locate a non-unusual floor for businesses and schools.
“I think we take it seriously. But at the same time, we have to measure the closure of all those businesses, the children who don’t attend school.What are we going to deal with these disorders too?”
Gazelka and Walz said the assembly was positive, but Walz presses that the urgency is not over.
“We are very informed of COVID-19. The thing is, it doesn’t fit our schedule,” Walz said.
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Early in the pandemic, Minnesota officials pledged to ensure that any K-12 instructor or day care provider had access to a loose COVID-19 test.On Wednesday, Malcolm said those instructors would soon get commands on how to access the tests..
Schools and the school will get commands this week on how to download a unique code to access a saliva check.The code can be used to access a bachelor’s check until the end of the year, Malcolm said.
She, under pressure from teachers and are not required to take a check before returning to elegance or proceeding to care for the children, suggested that eligible Americans use this option if necessary.
“You may feel symptomatic. He would probably have been exposed to who tested positive for COVID,” he added.
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After being closed for months in the middle of the pandemic, the Minnesota History Center in St. LouisPaul will reopen the public on October 1.
The center will restrict the number and advance tickets are recommended.Special exhibits on Prince and First Avenue have been extended until January 3.
The Minnesota Historical Society, which manages the center, says it is in a position to resume self-guided visits to the state Capitol as soon as the administration branch lines the building.in Onamia, Minnesota, will also reopen on October 1. The museum will be closed this year.
The center’s study library is still being reconfigured to welcome visitors safely during the pandemic and is expected to reopen by the end of this year.
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HealthPartners announced Wednesday that it will recruit at least 1,500 other people in a clinical trial that will determine whether a vaccine developed through Oxford University is effective in preventing COVID-19.
Participants must be 18 years of age or older, fit, and never covid-19.Researchers are primarily interested in others at increased risk of COVID-19, such as physical care workers, lifeguards, and food service workers., grocery outlets and meat packaging.
They are also for others who have solid fitness disorders, such as diabetes and high blood pressure, which makes them more likely to expand the serious coVID-19 bureaucracy.They are also for other people of color to participate.
The trial is a randomized double-blind study. Approximately two-thirds of registrants will get the vaccine, while one-third will get a placebo. Medical experts say there are initial symptoms that the vaccine is effective and safe, and has not shown any serious side effects in other people who have won the injection.
Researchers at the HealthPartners Institute will oversee the trial record in partnership with physicians through the organization’s fitness care formula.HealthPartners is Minnesota’s only fitness formula and one of nearly a hundred sites in the United States, Peru and Chile involved in the clinical trial, led through AstraZeneca.
“This study complements our other efforts to advance COVID-19 testing, remedy and care and is a vital component of our project to improve fitness and well-being,” said Andrea Walsh, CEO of HealthPartners.
Although the effort was the subject of the political complaint in the run-up to the presidential election, HealthPartners researcher Charlene McEvoy said the essay has a scientific basis.
“The aptitude of the American people, of the world, depends on what we do well.It will be political,” McEvoy said.
The trial is expected to last two years, however, approval of widespread use may come sooner.
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Calling it a “gut-hurting decision,” Surly Brewing Co.announced wednesday that he would close his brewery in November.The Minneapolis brewery said on an online page that “breweries are, by definition, collecting put and collecting put and pandemics do not mix.”
The company says revenue from the area has dropped by 82% at the same time last year.
The closure comes a few days after the staff of the brewing room voted in favour of unionizing.In a message on their Facebook page, the union said the resolution was illegal and transparent retaliation for staff who form a union.put in position weeks ago.
Surly, known for launching Minnesota’s craft beer boom, opened his distillery in 2014.
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The Minnesota Supreme Court deserves to expedite the voter assistance case: Judges will determine whether a couple of laws covering the permitted assistance point for the electorate will remain active or suspended.A small court stopped the execution. The case is one of an expanding war on how the 2020 elections will take place.
COVID-19 looms over the sugar beet harvest: sugar beet manufacturers and processors rent thousands of employees each year from harvest, this year they will have to protect them from COVID-19 to ensure harvesting.
At least 12 states report coronavirus cases related to the Sturgis rally: more than two weeks after nearly a million riders accumulated in South Dakota, the count of coronavirus infections dating back to the Sturgis rally has exceeded 260, an estimate that continues.to grow as more states report Array cases with the first known COVID-19 death of a player reported in Minnesota.
The knowledge in these graphs can be found in the Minnesota Department of Health’s cumulative totals published daily at 11 a.m.More detailed statistics on COVID-19 can be found on the Ministry of Health’s website.
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