Worcester State Extends Spring Break Over Coronavirus

WORCESTER, MA — Worcester State University will extend spring break by one week over concerns about the spreading new coronavirus outbreak. Worcester State President Barry Maloney made the announcement on Wednesday morning during a meeting with students.

Classes that aren't already held online will be cancelled between March 16 and March 29. The school is on spring break next week, and classes will be held until spring break starts.

Salem State University on Wednesday also extended its spring break through March 29.

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Other schools in Massachusetts are already canceling spring classes. Harvard, MIT, Emerson, Smith, Amherst and others will go online-only after spring break next week.

Assumption College in Worcester shut down its Rome campus for the remainder of the spring semester. Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Framingham State University have both cancelled international travel until at least the summer.

At Clark University, ten students have remained off-campus after attending a conference in Washington, D.C., where two attendees tested positive for COVID-19. One of those Clark students did return to campus after the conference, but was ordered to leave and enter self-quarantine. Three more students who recently traveled to Italy are under self-quarantine.

In Massachusetts alone, 95 people have tested positive for COVID-19 as of Wednesday afternoon. Six of those cases have been confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control.

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