Happy Sunday, Champaign-Urbana!
The University of Illinois COVID testing data reveals a total of 42 COVID-19 cases on campus over the past week. This puts last week’s campus positivity rate at 0.08%.
Champaign-Urbana Public Health has administered 161,979 COVID-19 vaccinations and have fully vaccinated 72,454 people.
Here are last week’s top stories to start off your Sunday! Click the link under each story to listen to them on the WPGU News daily broadcast.
Vaccination card to replace on-campus COVID-19 testing in Fall 2021
By Mac Dudley
From Friday, April 30, 2021
Due to results from studies showing that fully vaccinated individuals have a low chance of spreading COVID-19, the University of Illinois has announced that students will be able to provide their vaccination cards instead of biweekly testing for COVID-19 for the fall semester.