A battle is shaping up over tuition and state funding for the University of California between Gov. Jerry Brown and UC President Janet Napolitano.
The University of California at Berkeley on Sunday morning issued an advisory confirming a surge in student Covid-19 cases, “including students who live in campus housing.”
The university posted the advisory at 9 a.m. and updated it at 11 a.m. to note that:
“All residential students were sent a message about how to help reduce virus transmission in the community.”
The university’s novel coronavirus dashboard shows that 44 people tested positive on Saturday, representing 3.2 percent of the 1,362 tests analyzed.
For the period from Aug. 30 through Jan. 30 the university has seen 544 confirmed cases, with a positivity rate of 0.4 percent.
The university said in the advisory:
“We are now seeing a need to quarantine more students because they were exposed to the virus.”
The advisory continued:
“It is critical and required by current public health orders, that you do not attend indoor gatherings — large or small — with people outside your household. Even if you think it is safe, it probably is not.”
Contact tracing and quarantine/isolation management are being done by University Health Services, which is reaching out to students who have been exposed.
Last modified January 31, 2021 1:51 pm
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