VERGAS, Minn. — At the Parade Of Hope people across the community are coming together in the wake of multiple weeks of shutdown due to the Coronavirus. The parade is meant to bring smiles to people’s faces sending a message that we are all in this together. “Ya know being cooped up in your house not being able to go…
NORTH DAKOTA – Businesses in North Dakota have re-opened their doors, but not before implementing some guidelines. “Staff will be wearing masks when they’re interacting with customers within six feet. We have our sanitation out front, we’ve got a jar with clean pins and a jar for dirty pins. We’re down to 12 tables. We normally have about 26 here,”…
MINNESOTA -State health experts respond to the high amount of deaths in long-term care facilities. 295 of the 371 total deaths, or 79%, come from long-term care centers. “We do think it’s very unlikely that there’s anything different about how the virus is behaving in Minnesota or that there are any significant differences in the vulnerability of our long-term care…
Minneapolis (FOX 9)–Minnesota reported 28 new deaths attributed to COVID-19 Friday, matching a daily high, as the state’s death toll from the disease rises to 371. There were 4,553 new tests completed over a 24-hour period, more than 1,000 higher than the previous high-water mark set the day before and within shouting distance of Gov. Tim Walz’s goal of 5,000 tests a…
BISMARCK, N.D.–Gov. Doug Burgum is holding a press briefing to provide an update on the COVID-19 pandemic. Burgum will be joined by State Superintendent Kirsten Baesler, Brig. Gen. Robert Schulte and Vern Dosch The North Dakota Department of Health reported a total of 1,107 positive cases, 27 current hospitalizations, 482 people recovered and 23 deaths on Wednesday. Categories: Coronavirus, Coronavirus-ND,…
FARGO, N.D.–West Acres will reopen May 8 with new COVID-19 policies and procedures in place. The new policies include limited mall hours, altered food court operations, a new minor policy, closure of high-touch and furniture areas and distancing guidelines. West Acres officials say, “For the foreseeable future, a shopping trip to West Acres will feel different. If it didn’t, we…
CASS COUNTY, N.D.–Four Cass County residents have died from COVID-19-related illnesses. All four individuals had underlying health conditions. A man and woman in their 90s, a woman in her 80s and a man in his 70s passed away on Friday. The four new deaths bring the total in North Dakota to 23. The state is also reporting 40 new COVID-19…
FARGO, N.D.–Happy Harry’s RibFest has been canceled. The festival was scheduled June 3-6 at the Fargodome and would have marked the 25th year of the event. Event organizers determined it was in the best interest and safety of the 50,000 event attendees to cancel the festival. The 25th annual event milestone will be celebrated at next year’s festival on June…
FARGO, N.D. — The North Dakota State department of health has received some reinforcement from students at NDSU. The students will assist in contact tracing, one of the main techniques used to manage outbreaks. “This is completely outside of classwork,” said NDSU’s chair of the Public Health Department Pamela Jo Johnson. “We created a contract with the state health department…
FARGO N.D. — NDSU Professor Dr. Paul Carson says looking at new hospitalizations and deaths instead of new cases is a better way of gauging the virus. As testing across North Dakota has increased, the number of hospitalizations and deaths have leveled off. Carson still urges people to take necessary precautions when going out in public. “Whatever we do that…
