GOV. TIM WALZ SCHEDULES PRESS CONFERENCE FOR 2 P.M. TODAY

Gov. Tim Walz is expected to make a major announcement on Minnesota’s battle against COVID-19 at a hastily scheduled news conference at 2 p.m. this afternoon from the State Emergency Operations Center in St. Paul. Listen on KROX Radio, online by clicking on the listen live link in the upper right-hand corner, the KROX app, or Alexa.

WHO: Governor Walz; Department of Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm; Dr. Jakub Tolar, Dean of the University of Minnesota Medical School and Vice President for Clinical Affairs; Dr. William Morice II, President of Mayo Clinic Laboratories; Andrea Walsh, President and Chief Executive Officer for HealthPartners; and Dr. Michael Osterholm, Regents Professor, McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair in Public Health, and director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota