LOS ANGELES (KNX) — UCLA announced Friday it would be postponing students’ return to in-person instruction, citing a nationwide surge in new COVID-19 cases due to the rapidly spreading Omicron variant.
Online-only instruction will be extended at the Westwood campus through Jan. 28.
UCLA has reported more than 1,200 new COVID-19 cases among students, staff, and faculty since the New Year. And only around 34% of eligible UCLA students have received their booster shoots against the virus — a “smaller than anticipated” group, administrators said.
“While we had hoped that our safety protocols and enhanced testing requirements would be sufficient to allow us to resume in-person instruction after next week, regional and campus trends in positivity rates, as well as staffing and operational concerns, have led us to conclude that an extension of remote education is the prudent course of action,” the university said in a statement on Friday.
Alongside UCLA, UC campuses in Davis, Irvine, Riverside, San Diego, and Santa Cruz have announced they are extending remote instruction through at least the end of January.
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