A Vermont university is reporting more than 60 positive COVID-19 cases and now students on campus are confined to their rooms.According to Daphne Larkin, director of media relations and community relations at Norwich University, there have been 66 positive cases and those students are isolating. Fifty-five others are in “quarantine, either due to contact tracing or the symptom tracker.”The university’s COVID-19 reporting dashboard shows from Jan. 11 to the present, there are 67 positive cases. One of them is a “recovered case, tested in error within 90 days recovery.”The dashboard also reported that there were 3,416 tests done with results. Larkin said, “Everyone is getting tested weekly. Some individuals are getting tested more frequently based again on contact tracing.”In a video message posted online Monday, university president Dr. Mark Anarumo announced the campus was going back into a modified room quarantine. “The current rate of the virus and the infection rate on campus is unsustainably unreasonably high and we’re going to have to correct it very quickly or we will be at risk of not being able to have an in-person semester as we had planned,” Anarumo said.Students are only able to leave their rooms to use the bathroom or to get food.”I’m lucky because I have a great roommate and we’re good friends,” junior student Isabela Ferraro said.Before students returned to campus earlier this month, they were expected to quarantine for two weeks and were tested as soon as they returned then again seven days later. “For the fall semester, things went phenomenally well, we had 16 cases total for the entire fall semester. We’re starting now with 66, so yes it’s different,” Larkin said.Larkin said, “Right now, we’re hoping and planning to move to in-person classes on Feb. 2.” “…like I said, we’re taking this very seriously, we’ll evaluate on a 24-hour cycle, within 48 to 72 hours from now, we’ll have a more solid picture of whether that is realistic,” Larkin said.
A Vermont university is reporting more than 60 positive COVID-19 cases and now students on campus are confined to their rooms.
According to Daphne Larkin, director of media relations and community relations at Norwich University, there have been 66 positive cases and those students are isolating. Fifty-five others are in “quarantine, either due to contact tracing or the symptom tracker.”
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The university’s COVID-19 reporting dashboard shows from Jan. 11 to the present, there are 67 positive cases. One of them is a “recovered case, tested in error within 90 days recovery.”
The dashboard also reported that there were 3,416 tests done with results.
Larkin said, “Everyone is getting tested weekly. Some individuals are getting tested more frequently based again on contact tracing.”
In a video message posted online Monday, university president Dr. Mark Anarumo announced the campus was going back into a modified room quarantine.
“The current rate of the virus and the infection rate on campus is unsustainably unreasonably high and we’re going to have to correct it very quickly or we will be at risk of not being able to have an in-person semester as we had planned,” Anarumo said.
Students are only able to leave their rooms to use the bathroom or to get food.
“I’m lucky because I have a great roommate and we’re good friends,” junior student Isabela Ferraro said.
Before students returned to campus earlier this month, they were expected to quarantine for two weeks and were tested as soon as they returned then again seven days later.
“For the fall semester, things went phenomenally well, we had 16 cases total for the entire fall semester. We’re starting now with 66, so yes it’s different,” Larkin said.
Larkin said, “Right now, we’re hoping and planning to move to in-person classes on Feb. 2.”
“…like I said, we’re taking this very seriously, we’ll evaluate on a 24-hour cycle, within 48 to 72 hours from now, we’ll have a more solid picture of whether that is realistic,” Larkin said.
