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Fairfield universities lock down some students amid COVID spike
FAIRFIELD — Sacred Heart University officials announced two residence halls will be placed under quarantine Thursday night amid a spike of new coronavirus infections on campus.
Nearby, Fairfield University ordered students living off campus to stay at home amid a similar spike
SHU students living at Seton Hall and Jorge Bergoglio Hall will begin a 14-day quarantine beginning at 8 p.m. Thursday.
“This means students in those halls will revert to online learning and will not leave their rooms except for bathroom breaks and to pick up food,” the school’s coronavirus planning team said in a message to students.
The move came as SHU reported 35 new cases of COVID-19 since Tuesday, 29 of them on campus.
Fourteen cases were at Seton Hall; 10 were reported at Bergoglio, Thursday’s message said.
The school has also bumped its COVID-19 alert status up to orange.
Students were told not to leave campus unless absolutely necessary.
“With the move to orange, we are reminding students to stick with the people who are in your family pod. We are asking you not to have guests in your rooms — even the previously allowed friends from within your residence hall,” the team said.
The school’s public dashboard showed 94 active cases of COVID-19 as of Thursday, with 54 of the cases among students living on campus.
Fairfield University ordered off-campus boarders to remain in their homes or yards and revert to online-only instruction beginning at 1 p.m. Thursday.
Off-campus students are not permitted to co-mingle with students living in other homes and should not travel to off-campus class related events, the school said.
“Students…