Coronavirus cases force UNC-Chapel Hill to suspend in-person classes after flagship’s push to bring thousands of students on campus
In the week before class started Aug. 10 at UNC-Chapel Hill, 10 students and one employee tested positive, according to the university. But clusters of cases piled up in the residences known as Granville Towers, Ehringhaus and Hinton James, as well as the Sigma Nu fraternity house, according to text alerts the university sent students in recent days.
“The fact that it is happening this early in the school year, just a week into classes, has everyone quite concerned and quite alarmed, quite frankly,” said Mimi V. Chapman, a professor of social work who is chair of the UNC-Chapel Hill faculty.The public university has about 20,000 undergraduates and 10,000 graduate students.
Officials say many students appear to be taking public health seriously. Masks are worn all around campus, they said, and students are maintaining physical distance from each other when they go to class.“It has been heartening to hear reports from faculty and staff and to experience for myself the excellent compliance on campus this week,” the provost, Blouin, wrote Thursday. “Our goal, certainly, is full participation both on campus and off among all members of our Carolina community.
But they were deeply concerned about gatherings off campus. The UNC-Chapel Hill chancellor, Guskiewicz, wrote a letter recently warning fraternities and sororities and other groups that they must follow health rules.One dorm was set aside to isolate those who test positive and another to quarantine those who had come into close contact with confirmed cases.
She said her meals are delivered, including a turkey sandwich for lunch, and grilled chicken for dinner, as well as a supply of Pop-Tarts, oatmeal and cans of soup. “I was told I could only leave if I need a breath of fresh air,” she said.
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