The Washington Duke statue on the campus of Duke University in the United States.
Duke University, a prestigious U.S. university in Durham, N.C., has announced that it has issued a quarantine order for all undergraduate students effective Saturday night (March 13) due to an outbreak of the C.C.V. (New Coronavirus) outbreak caused by students attending a recruitment party.
Duke said in a statement that all undergraduates will be forced to remain in place until at least March 21. Those who “flagrantly or repeatedly violate (the quarantine order)” may be subject to suspension or expulsion from the university.
In the past week, Duke University has reported more than 180 students who have tested positive for the CCP virus. Another 200 students may have had contact with an infected person and were ordered to be quarantined as a result.
In a statement, the university said the outbreak was caused primarily by students who attended a recruitment party.
Duke said all classes will shift to distance learning, and students living on campus must remain in their rooms or apartments at all times, except for basic activities such as going out to eat or for health or safety reasons. Off-campus students will not be allowed to stay on campus except to take COVID-19 tests, seek medical attention or pick up Food.
Duke said it will provide a policy update next Thursday.
Duke is a private research university, one of the top institutions in the United States and known as the “Harvard of the South,” with a 9 percent admissions rate in 2016. Although the current school was founded in 1924, Duke’s history actually goes back to Trinity College, founded in 1859 at its current location, or earlier to Brown’s Schoolhouse, founded in 1838.
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