More Than 300 Pitt Students Cited For COVID-19 Violations

PITTSBURGH, PA — More than 310 University of Pittsburgh students have been cited for violating the school's coronavirus protocols during the fall semester, university officials told the Oakland Planning and Development Corporation this week. Those students face various university sanctions.

Nearly 900 tips and comments have been received by the university website where COVID-19 policy infractions can be anonymously reported. But Pitt couldn't address many of them because they did not list addresses or were filed after student parties had ended, according to The Pitt News.

According to the university's COVID-19 dashboard last updated Monday, 50 students tested positive for the virus between Nov. 13 and Nov. 16. Ninety-nine students were in isolation and four new faculty and staff cases were reported.

Patch reported Thursday that central Oakland, where the heart of Pitt's campus is located, was the neighborhood with the city's second-highest number of coronavirus cases with 290. Only the South Side Flats, with 329 cases, had more.

On the fringes of the campus, North Oakland had 127 cases and South Oakland 105.

Pitt students currently are sheltering in place.