Bowling Green State University is reporting a decline in COVID-19 cases after three weeks of increases.
From Nov. 18 to Nov. 24, the university reported 101 cases – 91 students, two faculty, and eight staff. Of those, 61 percent of those individuals live off campus. That’s down from 127 the week before. The weekly dashboard reported that there are 71 active cases – 64 students, two faculty and five staff – being actively monitored by their county health departments.
As of Nov. 24, 13 residential students who tested positive for COVID-19 are in isolation on campus and four who have been exposed are in quarantine in residence halls.
The university also reports conducting 1140 open on-demand tests on students, faculty, and staff who may be asymptomatic or symptomatic or have been exposed to the virus. Forty of those tests were positive, a 3.5 percent positivity rate. The university also conducted 616 screening tests on individuals in targeted groups, and detected two positive cases, a 0.3 percent positivity rate. Since Aug. 20, 5,849 tests of asymptomatic individuals have been done, and 41 tests came back positive, a 0.7 percent positivity rate.
Since the beginning of the semester, 872 cases — 832 students, nine faculty, and 31 staff — of COVID-19 on campus have been reported.
