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After seeing an explosion of positive COVID-19 cases over the past week, East Carolina University Interim Chancellor Ron Mitchelson announced Sunday that the university would be pivoting all undergraduate instruction to remote learning and is asking students living on campus to move out by the 30th. According to data from ECU’s Public COVID Dashboard, 262 positive COVID-19 cases were reported the week of the 16th through the 22nd. Six new clusters of COVID-19 were reported by the university on the 22nd, five at residence halls and one associated with a sorority. A cluster is defined by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services as five or more cases that are close in proximity with each other. The 262 new cases from last week account for 70.8% of all cases reported since June 7th, bringing the cumulative case number to 370. Of the 370 COVID-19 cases reported since June 7th, 22 (5.9%) are faculty members. The positive test rate from August 16th through the 22nd was 25.9%, up 18.1 percentage points from the previous week, a number that Mitchelson called “unacceptable.” ECU is the third UNC System school to shift to all-remote classes, following in the footsteps of UNC Chapel Hill and NC State University. It is just the second school, alongside Chapel Hill, to ask students to move out of residence halls. Both universities are allowing students with special circumstances to fill out applications to remain in residence halls. Mitchelson, a longtime ECU faculty member, has served as interim chancellor since October 2019. Seated at his desk while wearing a purple face mask, Mitchelson addressed students in a short video released Sunday. “We simply had to try [to come back] because the mission depends on it. But it was also important for us to monitor the numbers and make a difficult but wise choice if it wasn’t working out, and that’s where we found ourselves.” ● The Recommended Content Widget will appear here on the published site.
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