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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.

Related:  Notre Dame Football – COVID-19 Tracker

Catholics vs. COVID: Notre Dame Closes Campus

Notre Dame has closed campus after an emergence of positive tests on campus in recent days.

The University of Notre Dame has seen a significant uptick in COVID-19 cases this week as students are in their second week of classes for the semester.

Monday saw 418 COVID-19 tests administered with 80 positive tests on campus and quick action was taken by officials a day later as President Rev. John Jenkins announced the closure of campus for two weeks and all classes being done online.

In order to encourage contact tracing the University also won’t punish students for attending off campus parties at this point.

This comes just a day after the University of North Carolina shut down their campus after an outbreak there.

I get young adults not making smart decisions as I’m as guilty as anyone of not thinking wisely far too often during college.

If Notre Dame students have any interest in watching their football team this fall, they’ll start wisening up a bit with how they spend their free time the next few weeks.