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11/15/20
University of Iowa leadership is directing all units outside of UI Health Care to evaluate whether additional employees can feasibly work remotely and to take appropriate steps to facilitate remote work when possible. That’s according to a Friday update on the school’s COVID-19 information web site.
The update says employees who provide critical functions that must be completed on campus will be expected to continue to report for work on campus. It says directing employees to work from home will support social distancing and reduce the threat of spread for everyone, including colleagues who must perform essential services on campus.
School officials also sent out a reminder that classes will move to a virtual delivery mode on Monday, November 30th through the end of the fall semester.
According to Friday’s update, 60 new COVID-19 cases have been reported among UI students and 19 among UI employees between Wednesday and Friday. That’s a total of 2,465 student cases and 195 employee cases since the fall semester began.
Three residence hall occupants are currently under quarantine and 21 are in self-isolation. Quarantine is used to keep someone who might have been exposed to COVID-19 away from others, while self-isolation is used to separate people infected with the virus from people who are not infected.
General COVID-19 updates from the university can be found at coronavirus.uiowa.edu.
