UNC has notified the campus community of another COVID-19 cluster on campus, this time at Cobb residence hall.

This is the 12th 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.

The cluster was earlier confirmed by the Orange County Health Department in a press release, but a follow-up email from the county said the inclusion of Cobb residence hall was a “typo.”

The press release from Orange County did say that the university will implement mass testing on Thursday, August 27 and Friday, August 28 following consultation with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services and the Orange County Health Department.

“Health department staff is working closely with Campus Health on case investigation, contact tracing, setting up additional testing opportunities, and working to further de-densify campus,” said Orange County Health Department director Quintana Stewart.

The university reported a cluster of five coronavirus cases at Koury residence hall earlier this week. Granville Towers remains the residence hall with the most amount of cases at 156.

Updates to the university’s COVID-19 dashboard revealed that 32.2 percent of UNC’s tests among students during the week of August 17 through August 23 returned positive. This is an increase from 13.6 percent the week prior. Overall, 505 students tested positive last week.

UNC-Chapel Hill is reporting 955 cumulative cases on campus — 903 students, 52 employees — since the university first began testing for the virus in March.

Undergraduate classes at the university have resumed after a brief pause while undergraduate students transitioned to virtual learning for the remainder of the fall semester.

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