UNC has notified the campus community of another COVID-19 cluster on campus, this time at Rams Village Building #5.

This is the 13th COVID-19 cluster reported on the university’s campus. A cluster is five or more positive COVID-19 cases, according to North Carolina Health and Human Services. Officials said the individuals in the cluster have been identified and are isolating and receiving medical monitoring.

This cluster comes a week after the last one was reported — August 27 at Cobb residence hall.

The university is no longer using the AlertCarolina system to notify students of additional clusters on campus.

Updates to the university’s COVID-19 dashboard revealed that 41.3 percent of UNC’s tests among students during the week of August 24 through August 30 returned positive. This is an increase from 32.2 percent the week prior, but 915 fewer tests were performed.

Additionally, the university is reporting that its housing occupancy is down to just 12.9 percent on campus and 9.3 percent at Granville Towers. Granville was the site of a large outbreak earlier this semester and the dashboard currently shows 189 cumulative cases at the residence hall.

UNC-Chapel Hill is reporting 1,127 cumulative cases on campus — 1,068 students, 59 employees — since the university first began testing for the virus in February. Undergraduate classes at the university have been moved online for the remainder of the fall semester.

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