Cornell University shuts down Ithaca campus after surge of nearly 500 Covid-19 cases detected

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Cornell University is shutting down its Ithaca, New York, campus and moving to 'alert level red' after what the school described as a 'rapid spread' of Covid-19 among students.

Cornell University is shutting down its Ithaca, New York, campus and moving to"alert level red" after what the school described as a"rapid spread" of Covid-19 among students.

There were 469 active student cases as of Tuesday afternoon, according to Cornell's online Covid dashboard, and an overall positivity rate of 3.01% for the week of December 6, among the students tested.President Martha Pollack said that the university's Covid-19 lab team detected evidence of the Omicron variant"in a significant number of Monday's positive student samples.

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