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Stay-At-Home Order Issued After Largest COVID-19 Outbreak At University Of Chicago
The cases are being traced to off-campus fraternity parties.
CHICAGO (CBS) — In the biggest outbreak of COVID-19 since the start of the school year, more than 50 cases of the virus has been reported at the University of Chicago in the past 48 hours.
Undergraduate students at the university have been placed under a stay-at-home order for the outbreak, and CBS 2’s Tara Molina has learned there is a likelihood that cases involve the highly-contagious B.1.1.7 variant that originated in the U.K.