The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill abruptly decided it will no longer hold in-person classes on campus after about 130 students tested positive for Covid-19 in the first week since classes began
In the past week, the Covid-19 positivity rate rose to 13.6% at Campus Health, and 954 students have been tested, UNC officials said in a letter to the community, equating to 130 positive cases. As of Monday morning, 177 students are in isolation and 349 are in quarantine, both on and off campus. Most students with Covid-19 have demonstrated mild symptoms, Chancellor Kevin M. Guskiewicz and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Robert A. Blouin said in the letter.
Covid-19 is still spreading rampantly, but there's less testing to find and isolate cases"Any of us who were young adults know what it's like to be in your late teens and early 20s. It's up to those colleges to make it easy for those kids to do the right thing, to do regular testing, have mask mandates, have masks easily available, and if needed, to shut down those campuses," she told CNN.Young people generally have less severe outcomes from Covid-19 infection.
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