2 additional students test positive for COVID-19, 3 students recover

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A discarded face mask lays in the parking lot outside the Village Commons Bookstore in DeKalb on Friday, June 12th.

By Northern Star Staff

DeKALB — NIU announced Wednesday that two additional students and no employees have tested positive for the coronavirus, and three students have recovered, according to the Campus COVID-19 Dashboard. As of Wednesday, 51 students and 11 employees are currently COVID-19 positive.

The dashboard’s cumulative testing statistics show a total of 464 Huskies that have tested positive for COVID-19, and 402 have recovered.

As of Wednesday at 3:20 p.m., NIU is at 13.5%  quarantine and isolation use, this is a .06% decrease from Tuesday.