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Connecticut colleges and universities will fully reopen this fall, but state won’t require COVID-19 vaccines, letting individual schools decide Amanda Blanco, Hartford Courant © Amanda Blanco/Hartford Courant/TNS Gov. Ned Lamont addresses higher education leaders during a press conference at Gateway Community College in New Haven Monday. Connecticut’s colleges and universities are planning to fully reopen for in-person learning this fall, school leaders announced Monday. But Gov. Ned Lamont maintains that for now the state will not require students to get vaccinated for COVID-19 before returning to campus. During a news conference with public and private school leaders in New Haven, Lamont said he wants all students and staff to get vaccinated and that he is sending mobile vaccine clinics to campuses to help them do so.

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