University of Washington suspends in-person classes in response to coronavirus
Source: Seattle Times
The University of Washington will stop meeting for classes on campus beginning Monday and officials are asking instructors to hold classes and exams remotely until the winter quarter ends March 20.
Classes will go remote at all three of the university’s campuses, affecting more than 48,000 students in Seattle, nearly 6,000 in Bothell and about 5,300 in Tacoma.
The move comes amid rising cases of COVID-19 in Washington, the epicenter of the nation’s novel coronavirus outbreak — and news on Friday that a university staff member who was tested for the illness received a presumptive positive result. This is the first person associated with university who is known to test positive; four students were tested in late January, but their tests came back negative.
The staff member, who works in Roosevelt Commons East, an office space west of campus in the 4300 block of 11th Avenue Northeast, is in isolation at home. UW rents several floors in the private office building, which is used by administrative staff.
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