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Chancellor Ronnie Green announced Monday that the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will adopt weekly COVID-19 random mitigation testing following successful re-entry testing.
Starting Thursday and each Thursday after, students, faculty and staff selected for random testing will be notified via email to sign up for a mandatory saliva test.Â
These tests must be taken the following week between Sunday and Wednesday. If a randomly selected community member fails to take their test before the Friday after they are chosen, their building access will be revoked until they complete their saliva-based test.Â
If there is a concentration of cases on campus, specific groups of students, faculty or staff may be required to be regularly tested, Green said. Other groups, like student teachers or childcare workers, can utilize the program for their testing requirements as well.
COVID on Campus: Unprecedented Challenges, Mixed Results
COVID on Campus: Unprecedented Challenges, Mixed Results
Experts Say Untold Thousands of COVID-19 Cases Went Undetected Share this story Published January 29th, 2021 at 6:00 AM Above image credit: Six Ionic-style columns originally supported the University of Missouri-Columbia s first campus building Academic Hall. (Emily Wolf | Flatland)
In April in the early weeks of the pandemic, as University of Missouri President Mun Choi evaluated whether his school should come back in the fall, he predicted that 20 students on his campus would need to be sequestered with COVID-19 if they came back for in-person classes.
Upon reopening in August, Missouri had isolation and quarantine housing available for more than 200 students. By Thanksgiving, the school had more than 2,300 reported cases overall.