VILLANOVA, Pa. (CBS) — Villanova University is warning students after seeing a spike in COVID-19 cases just one week into the spring semester. University officials say the campus has had three consecutive days of 60 or more positive cases.
Contact tracing shows many of the cases come from social activities and small gatherings.
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The university says if the trend continues it will have to move to all-remote learning.
The commonwealth reported more than 3,100 new COVID cases, bringing the statewide total to 853,616. The trend in the 14-day moving average number of hospitalized patients per day has increased by nearly 3,400 since the end of September.
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