7 additional students test positive for COVID-19

By Northern Star Staff

DeKALB — NIU announced Tuesday that seven additional students and no employees have tested positive for the coronavirus, and six students have recovered, according to the Campus COVID-19 Dashboard. As of Tuesday, 50 students and two employees are currently COVID-19 positive.

The dashboard’s cumulative testing statistics show a total of 1,006 Huskies that have tested positive for COVID-19, and 953 have recovered.

As of Tuesday at 3 p.m., NIU is at an 11.7% quarantine and isolation use, an 1.8% decrease from Monday.