New information about partnership involving Mayo Clinic

We're getting more details about the plan to ramp up testing in Minnesota

Coronavirus kimt news 3 is getting new information about a partnership involving mayo clinic that will provide rapid widespread coronavirus testing in minnesota.

Mayo is partnering with state health officials and the university of minnesota in the effort... kimt news three's raquel hellman joins us live in rochester with that brand new information.

Raquel?

Live right here at mayo clinic?

This really is the frontline in the fight against covi?

19.

As we first told you right here on kimt news 3 at five... the goals of this statewide strategy are to test*all symptomatic people?

Isolate confirmed cases to limit the spread?

And expand surveillance tools for public health officials.

Just a few hours ago?

I listened in on the minnesota house health and human services finance division's remote hearing?

To learn more about this partnership.

Local rochester representative tina liebling?

Who you see here?

Is the chair of that division.

At the core of the partnership is creating a central laboratory that can perform 3?

Thousand tests a day.

There are also plans for a virtual command center to monitor daily testing and respond to outbreaks.

During today's remote hearing?

Department of health officials revealed*new parts of the plan that they're working on?

Including a focus on vulnerable populations.

Here are some ways they plan to do that.xxx how do we set up clinics, testing clinics to test people who experience homelessness?

How are we going to do targeted testing within communities of color, working with the department of corrections to really expand our testing in prisons.

Another part of the partnership we're learning about today is they're developing a website?

Where anyone who needs testing can go and get information about what to do next.

Live in rochester, raquel hellman, kimt thanks raquel.

The partnership is being funded in part by 36 million dollars from the covi?19 minnesota fund./// the coronavirus pandemic has