New Hanover Co. health officials say theyâre seeing âThanksgiving surgeâ of COVID-19 cases
Thousands of vaccines arrive, vaccination programs begin By WECT Staff | December 18, 2020 at 4:03 PM EST - Updated December 18 at 6:47 PM
NEW HANOVER COUNTY, N.C. (WECT) - New Hanover County Public Health officials say theyâre seeing a surge of COVID-19 cases they are attributing to the Thanksgiving holiday.
The county as had eight days this month with more than 100 cases of COVID-19 reported, and the daily case count record was broken twice this week, with 156 new cases of COVID-19 reported Tuesday and a record 198 on Thursday.
UNCW will require students moving into residence halls to produce a negative Covid-19 test three days ahead of move-in. (Port City Daily/Preston Lennon)
WILMINGTON After completing the first semester of full-on pandemic protocols, University of North Carolina at Wilmington leaders now look toward the spring. Using the past few months of experience as a guidebook, the administration recently announced a number of measures designed to keep the campus presence alive, even as more classes will likely shift online because of Covid-19.
Re-entry testing is the highest-profile addition to UNCW’s spring semester procedures. Universities across the state have been advised by multiple authorities to institute the practice. It requires students moving into residence halls to produce negative Covid-19 test results three days prior to move-in, according to Katrin Wesner-Harts, a UNCW interim associate vice chancellor who is at the forefront of the university’s pandemic response.
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