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Youth wrestling tournament linked to COVID-19 outbreak

By
Brennen Rupp

Rock County families who participated in a youth wrestling tournament in Sioux Falls learned this week that they were exposed to a COVID-19 outbreak at the event.
The Northland Youth Wrestling Association held its 2021 State Wrestling Tournament at the Premier Center Complex in Sioux Falls.
The event took place from Wednesday, March 31, to Saturday, April 3, for Minnesota youth club wrestling teams and included approximately 2,000 wrestlers, in addition to spectators.
The Minnesota Department of Health has alerted schools and counties around the state of the outbreak.
As of Monday, MDH has linked 16 confirmed cases to the event.
“We know that Minnesotans desperately want to get back to doing the things we all love,” said Dr. Ruth Lynfield, the state epidemiologist and medical director for MDH.
“However, COVID-19 is spreading across Minnesota at a high rate. We ask Minnesotans to please be patient and continue to use prevention measures, and not to gather in large groups of people, particularly indoors, and please continue to wear masks and physically distance.”
There are nine counties that have confirmed cases associated with this event, including Cass, Le Sueur, Lyon, Morrison, Murray, Rice, Todd, Wright and Yellow Medicine.
To date, eight schools have confirmed cases associated with this event.
The MDH learned that 64 teams from at least 52 counties participated in the tournament.
The counties included are Anoka, Becker, Beltrami, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carlton, Carver, Cass, Chippewa, Clay, Cottonwood, Crow Wing, Dakota, Dodge, Douglas, Faribault, Freeborn, Goodhue, Hennepin, Houston, Kandiyohi, Le Sueur, Lyon, Meeker, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Mower, Nicollet, Nobles, Olmstead, Pennington, Pipestone, Pope, Ramsey, Redwood, Rice, Rock, Scott, Sherburne, Sibley, Stearns, Steele, Swift, Todd, Wabasha, Wadena, Waseca, Washington, Watonwan, Wright and Yellow Medicine.

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