Quinnipiac University Reports 115 New Coronavirus Cases In 2 Days

HAMDEN, CT — Quinnipiac University has implemented a 14-day campus-wide quarantine after reporting 115 new cases of the coronavirus since Wednesday, officials announced.

Quinnipiac also moved to a “red campus alert level,” according to a message sent to the school community. Classes will operate remotely through Nov. 18 while in-person events and gatherings are “paused.”

“This weekend we must be especially vigilant in our efforts to reverse the trend,” David R. Hill, Quinnipiac’s senior medical advisor, wrote in the message.

The campus-wide quarantine is retroactive to Nov. 4 when officials announced that students must “restrict activities and social interactions to their family unit (those they live with).”

“Residential students are not to make trips off campus, and students living off campus should not come to campus, except for testing,” Hill wrote. “Time outdoors should be limited to getting meals and ‘fresh air breaks’ and only with members of your family unit (students in isolation should not leave their rooms at all).”

Starting Friday night, students quarantining in their room at the direction of contact tracers were told to pick up their grab-and-go meals from the dining hall, but “cannot leave their room at any other time during the 14-day quarantine period. This is consistent with health department guidance when a school institutes a campus-wide quarantine.”

All residential students will be tested on Nov. 9 and all off-campus students will be tested on Nov. 10.