SWS is now offering voluntary asymptomatic testing for students; appointments can be booked Monday to Friday.
KFL&A Public Health is reporting 16 active cases in the region. There have been 719 cases in the region since the pandemic’s outbreak and one death. There have been three confirmed variant of concern cases.
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The two new cases were both identified off-campus.
There are three active cases of the virus in the off-campus community, according to the University’s COVID-19 tracker. There have been a total of 91 cases reported since Aug. 31, including 81 off-campus and 10 in residence.
The University is still requesting students, staff, and faculty who leave the Kingston, Frontenac, and Lennox and Addington (KFL&A), Hastings and Prince Edward Counties, and Leeds, Grenville, and Lanark region for essential reasons self-isolate for 14 days upon their return.
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“As we approach the reading week break, please be aware that public health guidance advises that all unnecessary travel should continue to be avoided and that many regions outside the KFL&A region remain under a stay at home order,” Mark Green, provost and vice-principal (academic) wrote in an email on Feb. 8. “The increase in COVID-19 variants in the province means that we all need to remain vigilant.”
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The University is reporting no active cases of COVID-19 in the Queen’s community as of Thursday evening.
Though Queen’s identified one new case of the virus in residence last week, it has since marked the case as resolved. There have been a total of 88 cases reported through the University’s case tracker since Aug. 31.
Students looking to get tested for COVID-19 can book an appointment at Queen’s Satellite COVID-19 Assessment Centre in Mitchell Hall through Student Wellness Services (SWS).
SWS is now offering voluntary, asymptomatic testing for students after Kingston, Frontenac, and Lennox and Addington (KFL&A) Public Health confirmed the first case of the B.1.1.7. case of COVID-19 in the region. The variant is a new, more easily transmissible version of the virus discovered in the United Kingdom.
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Queen’s reported one new case of COVID-19 in residence on Thursday.
The University marked all other cases of COVID-19 in the Queen’s community resolved, according to its COVID-19 tracker. There has been a total of 88 cases identified since Aug. 31, including 10 in residence.
Students looking to get tested for COVID-19 can book an appointment at Queen’s Satellite COVID-19 Assessment Centre in Mitchell Hall through Student Wellness Services (SWS).
The service, which is open Monday to Friday, has completed 171 tests as of Jan. 19 since reopening for the winter semester on Jan. 11. In the fall semester, SWS administered a total of 3,241 tests.