Cornell University shuts down Ithaca campus after surge of nearly 500 COVID-19 cases detected

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Cornell University shuts down Ithaca campus after surge of nearly 500 COVID-19 cases detected
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Cornell University is shutting down its Ithaca, New York, campus and moving to 'alert level red' after what the school described as a 'rapid spread' of COVID-19 among students.

There were 469 active student cases as of Tuesday afternoon, according to Cornell's online Covid dashboard, and an overall positivity rate of 3.01% for the week of December 6, among the students tested.

As of result, all final exams for the end of the semester will be moved online, all activities and athletics are canceled and the libraries are closed, Pollack wrote in a letter to the student body posted Tuesday.

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