14 additional students test positive for COVID-19

Patrick Murphy

Fourteen additional students and one employee has tested positive for the coronavirus.

By Northern Star Staff

DeKALB — NIU announced Friday that 14 additional students and one employee has tested positive for the coronavirus, and four students have recovered, according to the Campus COVID-19 Dashboard. As of Friday, 34 students and five employees are currently COVID-19 positive.

The dashboard’s cumulative testing statistics show a total of 742 Huskies that have tested positive for COVID-19, and 703 have recovered.

As of Friday at 3 p.m., NIU is at a 4.9% quarantine and isolation use, the same as Wednesday.