COVID-19 News: June 2 update for southwestern Minnesota

Redwood County now officially has its sixth confirmed case of COVID-19, while on Tuesday Southwest Health and Human Services was notified by the state of the first death due to COVID-19 of a Lyon County resident.

In Tuesday’s report, county-by-county in southwestern MN:

Blue Earth: 145
Brown: 16 cases (two deaths total)
Chippewa County: 51 (one death total)
Cottonwood: 76
Kandiyohi: 504 (one death total)
Lac Qui Parle: 3
Lyon: 65
McLeod: 37
Meeker: 45
Murray: 39
Redwood: 6
Renville: 5
Watonwan: 77
Yellow Medicine: 6