Mount Allison has 10 self-reported active cases of COVID-19 on campus, according to the school’s weekly COVID update released Tuesday. One of the cases is in a person living on campus, and the other nine are living off campus.
This is the third week in a row that Mount Allison’s self-reported active case count has dropped. At its highest point this year, on March 15, the school had 61 active cases reported. That week saw students, staff and faculty—some working off campus—report 102 more cases. But this past week, only 8 new cases were reported, bringing the cumulative total since January 3, 2022 to 400 cases.
The university is winding down its weekly community COVID-19 updates for now. The school announced that this week’s Tuesday Touchpoint newsletter would be the last for the term. It’s not clear if the school plans to restart the weekly missive in the fall, when students are back.
The school’s current fall plans include big changes, with the planned lifting of all COVID-19 measures. That includes the lifting of vaccination requirements for students, staff and faculty, and the removal of capacity limits and one-metre distancing in classrooms. Although vaccinations will no longer be required in the fall term, the school will continue to ask students, faculty, and staff to identify their vaccination status in Mount Allison’s online platform.
But measures are still in effect at the school for the time being. The school had previously announced it would keep certain public health measures in effect until the end of April, and has now clarified that measures like indoor masking, five-day isolation requirements, and proof of vaccination will remain until further notice, which means they will be in effect during the school’s upcoming Convocation events, which are in person for the first time since 2019.
The school says that details on protocols for summer camps and conferences will be communicated directly to participants.
