The Tang Center courtyard along Bancroft Way, Jan. 28, 2021. Photo: Pete Rosos
UC Berkeley reported 184 COVID-19 cases in the last week, hitting its peak during the pandemic and asking all students in campus housing to quarantine as cases continue to spread primarily among undergraduate students.
Daily cases had mostly been in the single digits leading up to Jan. 26, but they jumped to 42 cases among undergraduates alone on Friday. There were two other cases among graduate students and staff, making a total of 44 cases that day. On Sunday, there were another 34 cases and 100% were undergraduates.
The total number of cases in the last week amounts to about 25% of cases at the university since April, when Cal reported its first case. It has since had 731 cases of COVID-19 among its community members to date.
good morning to you! welcome to mornings on 2. it is friday, march 23rd. the search for morgan hill teen sierra lamar is getting national attention. and one week since her disappearance, there s been a new development in the case. allie rasmus joins us live from morgan hill. what are sierra s parents planning to do? reporter: we talked to steve and marlene lamar at 4 this morning. they reported their daughter s disappearance to the national center for missing exploited children, and they re working closely with the klaas foundation that helps organize volunteer searches. 15-year-old sierra lamar, their daughter, went missing one week ago today. she was leaving for school, supposed to take the bus, she never arrived at the school and she has not been seen since then. now the fbi child abduction team is on the case, they re agents were in the neighborhood near her home yesterday afternoon. so far this is considered a missing persons case, investigators have not found any evid