COVID-19 Update: On-campus testing still at 1% positivity rate
Rounding out the last week of classes before final exams, UF’s on-campus COVID-19 testing has remained at a 1% positivity rate and quarantine numbers have continued to drop.
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Rounding out the last week of classes before final exams, UF’s on-campus COVID-19 testing has remained at a 1% positivity rate and quarantine numbers have continued to drop.
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A week after UF began vaccinating students, faculty and staff ages 16 and older, the university’s COVID-19 isolation numbers steadily decreased. Daily COVID-19 tests have also remained at a seven-day average positivity rate of 1% since March 12.
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The positivity rate of on-campus UF COVID-19 cases persists at a seven-day average of 1% for the fourth week in a row. And following the university’s mass vaccination of about 5,000 members of the campus community Monday, students have hope for a return to normalcy.
UF is offering COVID-19 vaccines on campus for students, faculty and staff.
In preparation for another Spring semester in the COVID-19 pandemic, UF set aside three dorms for COVID-19 positive students to quarantine in, but much of the space went unused as positivity rates fell.
Soon enough, UF students will not only qualify for their long-awaited COVID-19 vaccinations, but can opt into a clinical study to help scientists learn more about how well they work.
COVID-19 cases at UF remain steady at a seven-day positivity rate average of 1%. This comes as the university announced students, faculty and staff could pre-register for the COVID-19 vaccine.
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As April approaches, COVID-19 cases on UF’s campus continue at a 1% positivity rate after it returned March 12 .
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A week after UF recorded some of its lowest Spring semester COVID-19 cases, on-campus testing and off-campus quarantine numbers experienced a slight uptick in positive results.
A year after UF shut down on-campus activity because of COVID-19, students and residents are still dealing with the saliva tests, Zoom lectures and homemade cloth masks that disrupted daily life.
Days before the one-year anniversary of the first confirmed COVID-19 in Alachua County, UF’s total positive cases of the virus passed 9,000 and the positivity rate continues to stay below 1%.
UF’s COVID-19 numbers have continued to decrease during the past several weeks as the university reported its lowest on-campus testing positivity rate and quarantines since the start of the Spring semester.
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