Dashboard: 5 more students test positive for COVID-19, 13 students recover

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Patrick Murphy

A disposable face mask lays in the grass along West Hillcrest Drive in DeKalb on Thursday, June 11th.

By Northern Star Staff
September 16, 2020

DeKALB — NIU announced Wednesday five more students have tested positive for the coronavirus, and 13 more students have recovered from COVID-19, according to the Campus COVID-19 Dashboard. As of Wednesday, 50 students and two employees are currently COVID-19 positive. 

The dashboard’s cumulative testing stats show a total of 187 Huskies who’ve tested positive for the coronavirus, and 135 total Huskies have recovered. 

As of Wednesday at 3:11 p.m., NIU is at 10.17% quarantine and isolation use, according to the dashboard. This is a 2.54% decrease from Tuesday. 

NIU COVID-19 Helpline

Faculty, staff and students can contact the NIU COVID-19 Helpline at 815-753-0444 if they’ve been diagnosed with COVID-19, have COVID-19 symptoms or have been exposed to someone diagnosed with COVID-19.