No Coronavirus Cases At Ursinus Yet After 440 Students Tested

COLLEGEVILLE, PA — While most area school districts have opted for a fully virtual start to the 2020-21 school year, college campuses are endeavoring to get back to normal with students on campus this fall.

That includes Ursinus College, which is attempting to carefully track the progression of the virus among the local community and the student body in order to limit any additional outbreaks.

The college has now released the results from their first week of testing, which included 440 tests. None came back positive, according to the school's COVID Dashboard.

The dashboard also shows that two students are in isolation, and 13 are in quarantine. That number encompasses the entire student body, whether they're entering campus this week or not.

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The 440 tests were taken in the week leading up to Aug. 30.

Other universities have not been as lucky. Over at Temple University, 103 positive cases of the virus were discovered after more than 5,000 tests were administered over the past two weeks. The positive cases have caused the school to pause most in-person learning through Sept. 11.

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Penn State also found 153 positives from a testing pool of 17,000.

According to a report published Monday, there have now been 8,700 positive cases of coronavirus reported on college campuses nationwide.