{"id":71742,"date":"2021-04-16T15:52:42","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T19:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=71742"},"modified":"2021-04-16T16:50:13","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T20:50:13","slug":"brock-university-covid-19-update-for-april-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2021\/04\/brock-university-covid-19-update-for-april-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock University COVID-19 update for April 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of Friday, April 16, 65 of the cases involving Brock University residence students who were diagnosed with COVID-19 have been resolved. Two students remain in isolation on campus in relation to the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>Brock continues to work closely with Niagara Region Public Health after a COVID-19 outbreak was declared in student residences on Friday, March 26. The University is currently operating in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/216\/Stages-for-Pandemic-Response-and-Recovery-Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brock Stage 1 (Grey\/Lockdown),<\/a>\u00a0with all classes being held online and common areas on campus closed until further notice.<\/p>\n<p>Separate from the cases arising from the outbreak, a member of the Brock community tested positive for COVID-19. They were last on campus Friday, April 9 and the areas the person had visited are receiving additional cleaning. Contact tracing is currently underway.<\/p>\n<p>The University reminds all members of the Brock community, students, faculty and staff, to respect and adhere to public health guidelines to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Any students who are experiencing symptoms or have a medical concern are asked to contact Student Health Services immediately at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:Covid19Nurse@Brocku.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Covid19Nurse@Brocku.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Further updates will be provided as they become available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of Friday, April 16, 65 of the cases involving Brock University residence students who were diagnosed with COVID-19 have been resolved. Two students remain in isolation on campus in relation to the outbreak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64762,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3319,4052,1],"tags":[8791],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71742"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71745,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71742\/revisions\/71745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}