13 more students, 3 employees test positive for COVID-19
November 16, 2020
DeKALB — NIU announced Monday that 13 additional students and three employees have tested positive for the coronavirus, and 11 students have recovered, according to the Campus COVID-19 Dashboard. As of Monday, 49 students and nine employees are currently COVID-19 positive.
The dashboard’s cumulative testing statistics show a total of 492 Huskies that have tested positive for COVID-19, and 434 have recovered.
As of Monday at 3:00 p.m., NIU is at 11.7% quarantine and isolation use, this is a 3% decrease from Friday.
Surveillance testing
NIU administered 506 COVID-19 tests during the week of Nov. 9 for surveillance testing. The positivity rate was 2.4%, with 12 recorded positive results, according to surveillance testing data.
Surveillance testing data is updated on the dashboard website every Monday, or on a Tuesday if a holiday falls on a Monday.