McLeod County emergency employees will have access to homes of people who have had COVID-19. | Pixabay
McLeod County emergency employees will have access to homes of people who have had COVID-19. | Pixabay
McLeod County emergency employees will have access to data that lets them know if someone in a home they respond to has been infected with COVID-19, Hutchinson Leader reported.
Kevin Mathews, the director of McLeod County Emergency Management, announced that the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) is issuing addresses of people who have had the virus.
The decision came after Gov. Tim Walz executive order for MDH to provide the Department of Public Safety with the addresses of those who were still contagious. Mathews also guaranteed that the information would stay concealed.
He said, according to Hutchinson Media, “What we are going to do is only give (that information) to the people who need it. That’s going to be only to those who need to know it, who are currently going to be responding to an address that has a confirmed case.”
The information also won’t be transmitted over a radio.
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