Here’s the numbers from Mankato’s free COVID-19 testing event
September 10, 2020 8:11AM CDT
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(Mankato, MN) – State health officials say over 1,800 people were tested at a free COVID-19 testing event on the Minnesota State University, Mankato campus last week.
Andrea Ahneman of MDH’s Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Prevention and Control Division, said there was a high representation of college-aged people at the free testing event, which was scheduled after Blue Earth County was identified as a COVID-19 hotspot by state health officials.
Here are the official numbers from Ahneman:
Number of Tests Conducted: 1,863
Number of Positive Tests: 46
Positivity Rate: 2.5%
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