7 Northland schools removed from state outbreak list School buildings are removed after 28 days of no new positive tests where a person was infectious in a building. 8:00 am, Dec. 29, 2020 × Seven Northland schools were removed from the Minnesota Department of Health's outbreak list Thursday. A school building is put on the list if it reports five or more confirmed cases of COVID-19 in students or staff who were in a building while infectious during a two-week reporting period. The building is removed after 28 days of no new positive tests. Schools removed include Cloquet Middle School, Cloquet High School, Hermantown Middle-High School, Esko High School, Vandyke Elementary School in Coleraine and Lincoln Elementary School in Hibbing.