UA, DCH Reporting Low Coronavirus Totals To End Week

TUSCALOOSA, AL — The University of Alabama System in its Friday online dashboard update reported low numbers of new coronavirus cases among the students, faculty and staff of its three universities, which follows the same trends send in overall case numbers and hospitalizations locally.

The system's Tuscaloosa campus confirmed 22 new cases among students over the last week, in addition to four among its faculty and staff. This made up the majority of the system's 29 total cases among students and eight employees during the testing period.

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UA is currently using a little more than 1% of its space dedicated for quarantining, totaling six rooms occupied out of 518 total. At present, there are no students in isolation on the other two UA campuses in Birmingham and Huntsville.

As the situation continues to improve for UA, DCH Health System is seeing similar trends, reporting just seven new hospitalizations on Friday, bringing its overall coronavirus inpatient total to 27 - down from 69 total a month ago.

Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox also told Jason Morton of the Tuscaloosa News this week that if the trends continue in a positive direction over the new couple of weeks, he will go before the City Council to rescind his emergency order.

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