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The University’s COVID-19 Tracker will continue to be updated, even though the University has phased out its saliva testing program due to a lack of demand, according to University spokesperson Brian Coy.
Parents continue to assess risk for their unvaccinated children as mask mandates and vaccine mandates remain uncertain for the near future in Virginia.
Charlottesville and Albemarle were reclassified because in both localities the new COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people over the last seven days are below 200.
On Jan. 11, at the peak of the wave of cases caused by the Omicron variant, the seven-day average was 74.43 new cases per day — the seven-day case average has fallen 87.7 percent since that high.
The University said it will work with schools and units on an individual basis should any implementation issues arise before many of the masking requirements are lifted.
There are 278 active cases of COVID-19 within the University community, 228 of which are students and 50 of which are faculty and staff, per the University’s COVID-19 tracker.
The weekly average of COVID-19 cases per day for both students and faculty saw a slight uptick over the past week, with an average of 28.43 cases per day reported on Tuesday and an average of 36.57 cases on Thursday. There are a total of 104 individuals currently hospitalized for COVID-19 at U.Va. Health.
With Election Day looming overhead, students are faced with questions about how and why this election, and their vote, matters. Ella Nelsen and Blake Boudreaux, presidents of University Democrats and College Republicans, respectively, and fourth-year College students, delve into the changes that student advocacy and political involvement are facing this election season.