UMaine System plans to expand COVID testing for spring semester The system is considering weekly testing for staff and students on campus when classes resume Jan. 25. Share The University of Maine System plans to expand coronavirus testing this spring when students return to campus on Jan. 25. “Our efforts for the second semester will be similar but different than what we did in the fall,” said University of Maine System Chancellor Dannel Malloy. “The primary difference will be substantially greater amounts of testing given the rate of infection in Maine and in the nation, and understanding the many more opportunities people are having to come in to contact with the disease.”