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University of North Carolina Chapel Hill reopens, shifts back to remote learning after outbreaks

  • with 30,000 students, one of the largest in the country to reopen campus
  • as of Monday, 177 students were isolated after testing positive and another 349 were quarantined for possible exposure
  • According to the school, residence halls were at < 60 percent capacity, and < 30 percent of total classroom seats were filled but in the first week of school, the campus health clinic saw the test positivity rate rise to 13.6 percent from 2.8 percent
  • coronavirus “clusters” of five or more cases had been reported Friday in two student housing facilities, one more in a fraternity house on Sat, and a fourth cluster in a residence hall on Sunday
  • From August 1- August 27, 756 confirmed new infections from COVID-19 were confirmed at UNC Chapel Hill

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Updated 2020-09-03

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SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19)

Biomedical Sciences