STORRS, CT (1010 WINS) -- Forty students who live on the University of Connecticut’s Storrs campus currently either have COVID-19 or are suspected to have COVID-19, the school says.
The school's COVID-19 dashboard shows that 40 students have “positive/symptomatic” cases, representing 0.8 percent of the campus’ 5,000-student population. Fifteen of those students have tested positive, and 25 students have "potential cases based on contact with known positives," a university spokesperson said Wednesday.
All of the students will remain quarantined until they have been medically cleared, according to the spokesperson.
A total of 107 students who live on the Storrs campus have tested positive for COVID-19 since mid-August, and 92 have recovered, the data shows.
Fifty-seven Storrs students who live off-campus have also tested positive for COVID-19.
"For large residential campuses such as ours, practicing routine surveillance is an obligation of the reopening plan provided to the state Department of Public Health," the spokesperson said in a statement. "UConn-Storrs surveillance obligations include routinely testing non-symptomatic students on our campus. Students are randomly selected to participate in surveillance testing by Student Health and Wellness. All students are encouraged to be tested regardless of whether they have been randomly selected."