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COVID-19-positive health workers in North Dakota can work amid spike
Coronavirus cases continue to surge in North Dakota as the state recently announced new steps to help with hospital capacity and faces pressure to impose tighter restrictions.North Dakota is now allowing health-care workers who are COVID-19-positive, but asymptomatic, to continue working in coronavirus units, Governor Doug Burgum announced on Monday, as maintaining staffing levels continues to be a challenge amid heavy patient counts.“Our hospitals are under enormous pressure now,” Burgum said in a press release. “We can see the future two, three weeks out, and we know that we have severe constraints.”As of Thursday morning, the state had 707 COVID-19-related deaths and 293 people in hospital because of the virus.