The numbers of COVID-19 at Bowling Green State University are “very stable,” Chief Health Officer Ben Batey said during his weekly report Tuesday.
If the numbers continue to come down, he said, then more events and activities could be offered.
But for that to happen students need to be mindful of their interactions and keep their social circles small.
While the vaccines are starting to be administered to people most at risk, it will be awhile before there’s enough vaccine to have clinics on campus, he said..
Still, Batey said, society is moving “closer and closer to a sense of normalcy.”
The university’s COVID-19 dashboard reports 71 campus cases – 62 students, 75 percent living off campus, and nine staff, up from 65 cases last week.
Nine residential students who have tested positive are isolated in campus housing and 16 students who have been exposed to the virus or shown symptoms are in quarantine in residence halls.
From Jan. 18 to Jan. 24, the university administered 906 tests on targeted individuals as well as open on-demand testing for students, faculty and staff who may be asymptomatic, symptomatic, or have had an exposure.
The testing detected 46 cases, a 5.1 percent positivity rate. That compares to a 13 percent positivity rate statewide. Since the first of the year, the university has conducted 5,675 tests with 234 positives, a 4.1 percent positivity rate.
