PRAGUE (AP) — PRAGUE — The fast-spreading coronavirus variant first identified in the U.K. has been found in the Czech Republic, a health official said Monday.
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Minnesota health officials reported 980 new cases of COVID-19 in Minnesota on Monday morning bringing the total confirmed COVID cases to 447,349 in the state. Health officials also reported 12 news deaths bringing the death total to 5,939 in Minnesota. According to the Minnesota Department of Health website, 6,173,664 tests have been completed to date. There.
Washington, DC Today, President-elect Biden
announced that he has chosen
Andrea Palm, the Secretary-designate of the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, to be Deputy Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. During the Obama-Biden administration, Palm served as Chief of Staff and as Senior Counselor to the Secretary of HHS.
Leslie Dach, Chair of Protect Our Care, who also served as Senior Counselor to the HHS Secretary at the same time as Palm, issued the following statement:
“Andrea Palm will be a great Deputy Secretary of HHS. She knows the building and has deep respect for the people who work there. She is kind, she is tough, and she knows the issues. In Wisconsin she did an extraordinary job combating the pandemic, respecting the science and the facts, protecting the public health, and telling the truth to the people she served. I worked with Andrea every day I was at HHS, and she is a public servant through and through.”
Daily News staff
Wisconsin health officials Saturday posted a new coronavirus-related death in Marinette County, part of a record day in the state that saw 128 added to the toll.
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services listed 128 deaths in the state Saturday a new one-day record to reach 5,450.
Marinette County reached 55 deaths Saturday, along with 3,781 confirmed coronavirus cases, still the most in the region.
In Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the state Department of Health and Human Services’ COVID-19 data site added 71 confirmed positives Saturday: 24 in Houghton County; eight in Alger County; five in Dickinson, Iron, Marquette, Delta and Chippewa counties; four in Gogebic and Keweenaw counties; three in Menominee County; and one in Baraga, Schoolcraft and Mackinac counties. Delta and Schoolcraft counties each had one new death attributed to the virus.