One more student now COVID-19 positive, 2 students recover

By Northern Star Staff

DeKALB — NIU announced Tuesday one additional student is now COVID-19 positive, and two more students have recovered from COVID-19, according to the Campus COVID-19 Dashboard. As of Tuesday, 48 students and three employees are currently COVID-19 positive. 

The dashboard’s cumulative testing stats show a total of 226 Huskies who have tested positive for the coronavirus, and 175 Huskies have recovered. 

As of Tuesday at 3:50 p.m., NIU is at 19.5% quarantine and isolation use, according to the dashboard. This is the same as data from Friday.