Category Archives: COVID-19
Walz Introduces State Budget Plan Aimed at Helping Students, Recovering from COVID-19
(KNSI) - Minnesota Governor Tim Walz Tuesday revealed his biennial budget proposal, which he is dubbing "Minnesota's COVID-19 Recovery Budget." The budget math for fiscal years 2022 and 2023 will look...
Jan 26, 2021
No Local COVID-19 Deaths Among Eight Reported Statewide Tuesday
(KNSI) - The St. Cloud area adds 61 new cases of COVID-19 Tuesday with no newly reported deaths. Statewide, Minnesota sees 727 new cases and eight deaths. Stearns County adds the highest number of new...
Jan 26, 2021 Unsplash
St. Cloud State University to Allow Family Members of Teams to Attend Games
(KNSI) - St. Cloud State University is making an update to its fan attendance policy. The athletics department says family members will be allowed to attend games for the winter sports season, startin...
Jan 26, 2021 Unsplash
Minnesota Identifies First Known Brazil P.1 Variant COVID-19 Case in United States
(KNSI) - The Minnesota Department of Health's Public Health Laboratory has found the first documented case of the Brazil P.1 SARS-CoV-2 variant in the United States. Like the B.1.1.7 variant first dis...
Jan 25, 2021
Walz, Flanagan Launch 'Due North' Education Plan for Minnesota Schools, Students
(KNSI) - After nearly a year of changes and disruptions in education brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, Governor Tim Walz and Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan introduced the Due North Education Pl...
Jan 25, 2021 Pixabay
Minnesota Reports Three Deaths, Fewer Than 800 New COVID-19 Cases Monday
(KNSI) - The Minnesota Department of Health confirms 794 new cases of COVID-19 and three new COVID-19 deaths Monday. The death count includes one Sherburne County resident who was in their 80s. Overal...
Jan 25, 2021 Unsplash
Minnesota Adjusts COVID-19 Vaccine Appointment Sign-Ups, Plans Vaccination Opportunity for Twin Cities Educators
(KNSI) - A week into Minnesota's effort to vaccinate seniors, preK-12 school staff and child care workers, Governor Tim Walz is implementing changes to the pilot COVID-19 vaccination sites' appointmen...
Jan 25, 2021
Donate Plasma for a Chance to Win Super Bowl Tickets
(KNSI) - The Red Cross and the NFL are teaming up to collect plasma to help COVID-19 patients in exchange for a chance to win tickets to next year's Super Bowl. St. Cloud Red Cross Executive Director ...
Jan 25, 2021 Provided Photo
Less Than 5% of Minnesotans Have Received One Vaccine Dose
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The number of Minnesotans who have received at least the first dose of the two-shot COVID-19 vaccine is nearing a quarter-million, or less than 5% of the population, the Minnesota D...
Jan 24, 2021 Unsplash
Minnesota's Total COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation Nears 900K
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minnesota health officials reported Friday the state has now been allocated 871,650 doses of federally controlled COVID-19 vaccine, up more than 240,000 doses from a week earlier. T...
Jan 22, 2021 Steven Cornfield on Unsplash