There were 469 positive student cases as of Tuesday afternoon, according to Cornell’s online Covid dashboard, and an overall positivity rate of 3.01% for the week of December 6, among students tested. check.
President Martha Pollack said that the university’s Covid-19 laboratory team detected evidence of the Omicron variant “in a significant number of student samples that tested positive on Monday.”
Pollack emphasized that the move to close the campus with just a few days left of the semester was out of the blue.
“While I would like to offer reassurance that, to date, we have not seen severe illness in any of the infected students, we do have a role to play in reducing the spread of the disease,” Pollack said. in the broader community,” Pollack said.
Cornell’s last day of school is December 7, and final exams are scheduled for December 11-18, according to the school’s online schedule.
