Catholics vs. COVID – Daily Notre Dame COVID-19 Update

Notre Dame’s positive tests for COVID went down again on Friday and as a result, in-person classes will resume.

The latest numbers are out for the University of Notre Dame as it continues to try to flatten the curve of positive COVID-19 cases on campus.

The latest update from the university is out and has the following statistics after Wednesday’s results have been released.

Thursday, Aug. 27 saw 632 tests administered, up from Wednesday.  15 of those tests came back positive on Thursday, which means it was just a 2.3% positive test rate.

Of the 5.366 tests given since Aug. 3, 537 have come back to be positive.  Those positive tests have been from 503 undergrad students, 29 graduate students and five university employees.

As a result, Notre Dame President Rev. John Jenkins announced Friday that in-person classes will resume on campus starting Wednesday, Sept. 2.

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