ST. PAUL, Minn. –Governor Tim Walz called a special legislative session, his sixth, to extend his peacetime emergency powers. His goal: To combat the coronavirus. The special session would be this week. Insiders said that Walz favors more stringent restrictions than his earlier stay-at-home order. The disease is spiking with 4,800 cases a day.
COVID blight
The seven-day rolling average of the positivity rate in Minnesota more than doubled over the past two weeks from 6.3% to 13.5%, according to the COVID Tracking Project. The seven-day rolling average of new cases nearly tripled from 1,562 to 4,453. The rolling average of daily COVID-19 deaths rose from 16 to 27. day. Deaths total almost 2,700.