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Ithaca Residents Express Unease, Understanding as COVID Cases Rise
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As Cornellians return to campus and case counts rise, Ithaca residents express their understanding alongside concerns.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/covid-cases/)
As Cornellians return to campus and case counts rise, Ithaca residents express their understanding alongside concerns.
The University is amending the COVID-19 alert system from four levels down to three, with green level allowing for full capacity classes and events.
The Tompkins County Health Department is encouraging all residents, regardless of their vaccination status, to wear masks indoors while around others, the department said in a health advisory issued Friday.
Tompkins County reported two cases of the COVID-19 Delta variant last week — but even as the variant has caused cases to suge in some regions of the world, local experts are not sounding alarm bells for those that are vaccinated.
The end of March saw COVID-19 cases surpass 100 in a single week causing the University to double down on safety measures.
While the Cornell campus has returned to the green COVID-19 alert level, rising cases within the student population are contributing to an increase in Tompkins County cases overall.
Less than four days after the University announced that a cluster of nine students had tested positive for COVID-19, the Tompkins County Health Department said that another 12 individuals who were close contacts of them have contracted the virus — bringing the total number of new campus cases in the past week to 24.
Reopening is not without bumps in the road. And plans have changed and may continue to change.