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COVID-19 deaths rise to three in Lyon County

MARSHALL — A third Lyon County resident has died of COVID-19, the Minnesota Department of Health said.

A person from Lyon County was one of seven newly reported deaths in Minnesota on Friday. While more specific identifying information could not be released, Southwest Health and Human Services confirmed that the person who died was between 80 and 89 years old, and lived in a private residence.

The death was the only one reported in southwest Minnesota on Friday. The other six reported deaths included residents of Anoka, Dakota, and Hennepin Counties. The people who died included one person in their 60s, two in their 70s, two in their 80s and two in their 90s.

Four of the deaths reported Friday were residents in a long-term care or assisted living facility, and one was a resident of a group home or residential behavioral health facility.

While one death was reported in Lyon County, there were relatively few new COVID-19 cases reported in the area on Friday. Lyon and Murray County each had two new cases. Pipestone County had five new cases reported.

Lincoln County, which was the site of a community testing event after a spike in COVID-19 cases, had only one new reported case on Friday. Avera Tyler and the Avera Marshall region reported that a total of 411 samples were collected for testing during Wednesday’s community event. Not all of those samples have been processed yet — results have come back for 171 tests, with eight people testing positive.

Lyon County’s first two reported deaths from COVID-19 came in early June. Those two county residents included a person in their 70s and a person in their 80s.

This week also saw some changes to the MDH’s list of congregate care facilities which have reported a COVID-19 exposure. Boulder Creek Assisted Living in Marshall was added to the list. The MDH defines an exposure as having a person diagnosed with COVID-19 who either visited, worked or lived at a facility while they were contagious.

Starting earlier this month, the MDH began taking names of some congregate care facilities off the list, if they had not reported a new exposure for at least 28 days. Minneota Manor, which earlier this summer reported having a staff member diagnosed with COVID-19, has been taken off the list.

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