1 more student now COVID-19 positive, 18 students recover

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Disposable face mask lays in the grass outside NIU’s Founder’s Memorial Library.

By Northern Star Staff

DeKALB — NIU announced Thursday that one additional student and no employees have tested positive for the coronavirus, and 18 students have recovered, according to the Campus COVID-19 Dashboard. As of Thursday, 51 students and 9 employees are currently COVID-19 positive.

The dashboard’s cumulative testing statistics show a total of 436 Huskies that have tested positive for COVID-19, and 376 have recovered.

As of  Thursday at 3:30 p.m., NIU is at 11.7%  quarantine and isolation use, this is a 0.6% decrease from Wednesday.