NC Central University reports COVID-19 cluster at dorm
N.C. Central University reported a new COVID-19 outbreak late Thursday at a campus residence hall.
In a campus-wide alert, NCCU said the cluster is in the Bayard Residence Hall. The university did not say how many students were in the cluster. It said the cluster involved members of the football team living in Bayard.
The state defines a cluster as five or more cases in close proximity.
The students who tested positive are being isolated, NCCU said, and contact tracers are investigating.
NCCU started classes Monday, though law school classes started Aug. 17.
The university’s dashboard of COVID cases, in its last update Monday, showed nine students had tested positive for the virus since July 1, along with seven employees and a campus subcontractor.
The state’s historically Black universities, like N.C. Central, have so far not seen the kind of COVID-19 spikes this semester that larger public universities like UNC Chapel Hill and N.C. State University have.
As of Thursday, the state Health and Human Services Department reports 15% of the state’s total coronavirus caseload among people ages 18 to 24.
This story was originally published August 28, 2020 at 8:02 AM.
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