Lafayette College this week announced its first case of the COVID-19 coronavirus illness.
The case was confirmed Wednesday in a student who’d been living off campus for the prior two weeks with “very limited contact with any individuals on campus,” wrote Dr. Jeffrey Goldstein, the Easton school’s director of health services.
"The individual is doing well and we wish the student a full and rapid recovery," Goldstein wrote Wednesday to the campus community.
Lafayette says it is following protocols for testing, isolating and contact-tracing on campus, in coordination with the Pennsylvania Department of Health.
State health officials Saturday announced 1,334 newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 64 additional deaths, bringing the total, cumulative case count to 48,305 with 2,418 deaths.
According to Lafayette's campus communication:
"Students who have been in close contact with the individual who tested positive have been identified and they will transition to off-campus, college-owned housing for two weeks, which is the upper range of the incubation period for COVID-19. There were no employees on campus who had close contact with the student, defined by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) as being within six feet for a period of at least 10 minutes.
"Positive cases on our campus further underscore the importance of continued vigilance in adhering to the protocols which have been widely disseminated. I will continue to keep the campus updated with any new information that becomes available."
Lafayette in March moved to remote learning for the rest of this semester.
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