6 additional students test positive for COVID-19
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.
April 1, 2021
DeKALB — NIU announced Thursday that six students and no employees have tested positive for the coronavirus, and one student has recovered, according to the Campus COVID-19 Dashboard. As of Thursday, 23 students and one employee are currently COVID-19 positive.
The dashboard’s cumulative testing statistics show a total of 837 Huskies that have tested positive for COVID-19, and 813 have recovered.
As of Thursday at 3 p.m., NIU is at a 7.4% quarantine and isolation use, a 1.9% increase from Wednesday.