More students who live in a residence hall at the University of Connecticut that was placed under medical quarantine yesterday have tested positive for COVID-19.
School officials said the school currently has 56 positive and/or suspected cases of coronavirus on campus. That number includes seven new positive cases since yesterday, five of whom were already in medical quarantine, they added.
Three of the new cases are from the Willard C. Eddy residence hall, which school officials said is a stand-alone building in the Alumni Residence Hall Complex. The building was placed under medical quarantine on Saturday after multiple new cases of coronavirus in it.
According to an email sent by the school to residents of Eddy Hall on Saturday, the quarantine status will need to continue until there is a clear decrease in transmission of COVID-19 and it may be longer than 14 days.
"Students will participate in an enhanced testing regimen with twice weekly surveillance testing of this population until we are able to assess the ongoing trends," the school said in the email.
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The cumulative figure of confirmed positive residential students cases so far this semester is 154, school officials said.
UConn said there have been three new positive cases since yesterday among off-campus students near UConn Storrs, including two who were already in medical quarantine.
