Credit: Courtesy Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University has suspended in-person classes and activities at their Homewood campus for Wednesday and Thursday after detecting a cluster of COVID-19 cases among undergraduates.
In a letter to the university community, administrators said 30 students out of 6,000 tested positive for the virus Tuesday and Wednesday. They said preliminary investigation links the cases to off-campus social gatherings from over the weekend.
"We are taking a quick and proactive approach to this moment, although our numbers are small relative to our total population, out of an abundance of caution and to provide the opportunity to reinforce our communications with undergraduates about COVID safety precautions," administrators wrote. "Our peers who operated successfully in-person in the fall have not seen cases of transmission in classrooms, and we have had the same experience in our research labs, but we believe this action is necessary to ensure that we can carry out the rest of the semester safely."