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

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3 additional students test positive for COVID-19.

By Northern Star Staff

DeKALB — NIU announced Thursday that three additional students and one employee has tested positive for the coronavirus, and one student has recovered, according to the Campus COVID-19 Dashboard. As of Thursday, 47 students and seven employees are currently COVID-19 positive.

The dashboard’s cumulative testing statistics show a total of 671 Huskies that have tested positive for COVID-19, and 617 have recovered.

As of Thursday at 3 p.m., NIU is at a 8.0% quarantine and isolation use, a 0.6% increase from Wednesday.