MARSHALL (KMHL) – Lyon County’s death toll from COVID-19 is now 3.

The Minnesota Department of Health announced that a person from Lyon County was one of seven people who died from the virus on Friday.

Specific details on the person are not available, but local health officials confirmed the person was in their 80s and lived in a private residence.

Statewide, of the 7 deaths in Minnesota that were reported on Friday, 4 of them occurred in long term care facilities.