UI releases latest COVID-19 update

Lang
1/30/21

The University of Iowa has released its latest COVID-19 figures.

According to Friday’s update, eight new COVID-19 cases have been reported among UI students and 11 among UI employees between Wednesday and Friday. That’s a total of 2,913 student cases and 418 employee cases since the beginning of the fall 2020 semester.

One residence hall occupant is currently under quarantine and none 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.

Pandemic updates from the university can be found at coronavirus.uiowa.edu.