Hundreds of Covid-19 cases reported as students return to college campuses

College President Rev. John I. Jenkins introduced Tuesday that every one undergraduate lessons shall be distant for the following two weeks following the spike in cases. Public areas shall be closed, residence halls shall be restricted and students who dwell off-campus ought to stay of their houses, he stated.

“The target of these non permanent restrictions is to comprise the unfold of the virus in order that we are able to get again to in individual instruction,” Jenkins stated.

The expansion began August 10, when four out of 197 individuals examined optimistic. The college updates its numbers at midday daily.

Notre Dame started testing students earlier than they arrived on campus. In a batch of 11,836 exams, simply 33 exams got here again optimistic, which quantities to 0.28% of the full.

College of Kentucky

Since faculty started on August 3, 160 individuals have examined optimistic on the College of Kentucky, in accordance to the college’s Covid-19 dashboard.

A big quantity of events, which violated the college’s pupil code, has led to the rise in cases, in accordance to the college’s director of govt communication, Sarah Geegan.

The college was notified of 11 party-related citations from the weekend of August 8-9 and 10 citations from the weekend of August 15-16.

“We’re working carefully with town to implement the Code of Pupil Conduct, sharing data each day and assembly weekly to focus on points of concern,” Geegan advised CNN.

Western Kentucky College

Western Kentucky College in Bowling Inexperienced reported 19 optimistic cases of Covid-19 amongst students and employees between August 7 and 13, out of 132 exams performed throughout that interval.

That is a 14% positivity charge amongst these examined, however that solely contains exams performed on the Graves Gilbert Clinic and Med Heart Well being, in accordance to the college’s dashboard.

The positioning says, “WKU will not be knowledgeable of the quantity of students, school, or employees receiving a take a look at from suppliers aside from Med Heart Well being and Graves Gilbert Clinic at WKU,” so an general positivity charge can’t be confirmed.

WKU’s subsequent scheduled replace to its Covid-19 dashboard is Friday.

East Carolina College

East Carolina College in Greenville, North Carolina, reported 29 optimistic Covid-19 cases final week, a 7.8% positivity charge. Since students began returning to campus on August 5, the college has averaged about 30 new cases per week, in accordance to the college’s Covid-19 dashboard.

In a letter to the campus neighborhood Tuesday, Interim Chancellor Ron Mitchelson shared his concern about how pupil events have contributed to neighborhood unfold.

“Final Wednesday, we examined 165 students with 5 optimistic outcomes (about 3%). The low quantity of positives gave me hope that everybody was doing their half,” Mitchelson wrote.

“However then, the weekend comes and we see a small however seen fraction of our whole pupil physique scare us and the neighborhood with events which might be too massive, too dense, unmasked, and irresponsible. Whereas we had no celebration practically as massive as that reported in week one, we nonetheless had two dozen events over the previous weekend to which ECU Police and Greenville Police responded.”

On Monday, the college despatched out an alert to the neighborhood a few new cluster of cases in a residence corridor, however didn’t specify what number of students have been affected or what number of are underneath quarantine.

Colorado College

All 155 students in a single dorm at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colorado, have been pressured to quarantine after the college realized of a pupil who examined optimistic and didn’t apply correct social distancing tips.

“Sadly, right now we realized that the improved social distancing protocols — which we count on of all students as they await their take a look at outcomes — weren’t adopted,” Performing Dean of Students Rochelle T. Dickey and Vice President and Chair of the Prevention Work Workforce Brian Younger wrote in an electronic mail despatched to the college neighborhood on Sunday.

“Consequently, a number of individuals in Loomis Corridor have been uncovered to this pupil, and Loomis Corridor is now underneath quarantine for 14 days to mitigate additional threat. Our 155 Loomis Corridor residents have been notified to keep of their rooms besides to use the restroom (whereas sporting masks.) All visitors into and out of Loomis is restricted.”

Northeast Mississippi Group College

Northeast Mississippi Group College in Booneville, Mississippi, shared that “round 300” students are at present in quarantine, in accordance to the college’s president, Ricky G. Ford, on the college’s official podcast.

Ford stated the college has six or seven optimistic cases since faculty began final week and that “25 to 28 workers” are additionally underneath quarantine.

Northeast Mississippi Group College has round 3,200 students, which suggests round 10% of the coed physique is being quarantined.

Oklahoma State College

North Carolina State College

Eight members of the Greek life system have examined optimistic for Covid-19 at North Carolina State College, spokeswoman Lauren Barker advised CNN on Tuesday.

The college stated the Wake County Well being Division notified it of the cluster at an off-campus housing facility in Raleigh. The Well being Division stated there have been experiences of a gathering on the tackle August 6.

The students, who dwell in chapter homes, have been examined at off-campus testing websites and have been instructed to self-isolate by the college’s Pupil Well being Companies, the college stated in an announcement. All shut contacts have been suggested to quarantine for 14 days, which in some cases might imply your complete home being positioned on quarantine.

Lessons started August 10 on the college.

Iowa State College

Iowa State College stated Tuesday that 175 students residing in residence halls and campus residences have examined optimistic for Covid-19.

The college performed move-in testing over two weeks and located 175 students, or 2.2% of these examined, have been optimistic for the virus. The remaining examined destructive, the college stated in an announcement.

The director of the coed well being middle, Erin Baldwin, stated the objective of move-in testing was to determine optimistic cases and intervene to mitigate the unfold of the an infection.

“Students who examined optimistic are required to isolate for 10 days. About half of the students are isolating in isolation rooms offered by the division of residence,” the assertion stated. “Quarantine rooms are additionally out there for students notified via contact tracing that they have been uncovered to a optimistic case.”