No additional students test positive for COVID-19
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A gloved hand holds a COVID-19 nasal swab test. While the IDPH still recommends that everyone get vaccinated and boosted, the IDPH has begun the use of a COVID-19 treatment drug.
March 9, 2021
DeKALB — NIU announced Tuesday that no additional students and employees have tested positive for the coronavirus, and one student has recovered, according to the Campus COVID-19 Dashboard. As of Tuesday, 21 students and five employees are currently COVID-19 positive.
The dashboard’s cumulative testing statistics show a total of 804 Huskies that have tested positive for COVID-19, and 778 have recovered.
As of Tuesday at 3 p.m., NIU is at a 0.6% quarantine and isolation use, this is a 0.6% decrease from Monday