4 more students, 1 employee test positive for COVID-19

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An abandoned face mask lays in a pile of leaves outside NIU’s Founder’s Memorial Library on Tuesday, May 12th.

By Northern Star Staff

DeKALB — NIU announced Tuesday that four additional students and one employee has tested positive for the coronavirus, and 16 students have recovered, according to the Campus COVID-19 Dashboard. As of Tuesday, 39 students and 10 employees are currently COVID-19 positive.

The dashboard’s cumulative testing statistics show a total of 531 Huskies that have tested positive for COVID-19, and 482 have recovered.

As of  Tuesday at 3:00 p.m., NIU is at 4.3%  quarantine and isolation use, this is a 0.6% increase from Monday.