UC-Berkeley Officials Lift COVID-19 Residence Halls Quarantine Order

Berkeley CA

16 February, 2021

3:31 PM

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CBS San Francisco February 16, 2021 BERKELEY (CBS SF) — Amid a dramatic decline in new on-campus COVID-19 cases, University of California-Berkeley officials lifted a quarantine order Tuesday that had been imposed on Feb. 1 for students living in its residential halls. According to the University dashboard, there were 156 new cases reported among students the week of Jan 31. The following week that number dropped to 97 and for the first two days of this week there have only been eight new cases. UC Berkeley student affairs officials sent out an email, declaring that the quarantine was being lifted as of Tuesday. Read more at CBS San Francisco