Health & Fitness
COVID-19 Surge Of 558 Cases In 10 Days Lets Up At Villanova
A spike in new COVID-19 finally relented a bit over the weekend, as daily case numbers dropped to half of what they'd been at Villanova.
VILLANOVA, PA — A surge in COVID-19 cases at Villanova University that began to build on Jan. 29 built to 76 new cases on Feb. 3, and has subsided in the last two days reported.
In the 10 days since Jan. 29, 558 new positive COVID-19 test results were reported by Villanova University.
As positive daily tests surged among students reserve isolation beds were opened on campus, with half of the university's 430 isolation beds in use on Feb. 7.
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The surge began on Jan. 29, with 31 cases were reported; on Jan. 30, 66; on Jan. 31, 64; on Feb. 1, 62; and on Feb. 2, 71 new COVID-19 cases were reported.
Positive tests kept coming and on Feb. 3, 76 new cases were reported. On Feb. 4, there were 69 new cases and on Feb. 5, 61 new positive cases of COVID-19 were reported.
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It was on Feb. 6 that the number fell notably to 37 new cases, and then on Feb. 7 it dropped to 21 new cases.
Since Jan. 19, 597 in the campus community have tested positive for COVID-19, and all but seven of those were among students, according to the university's case tracking dashboard.
In the 10 days prior to Jan. 29, positive COVID-19 tests totaled 39.
As a result of the surge of cases, Villanova said it has activated another 270 beds that were on reserve. As of Jan. 31, 215 of the university's 430 beds were in use, the university's COVID-19 dashboard reported.
The dashboard shows 93 in the campus community were in isolation and 122 in quarantine on Sunday. Students who live within 300 miles of campus are sent home to isolate or quarantine and are not added in the bed count, the dashboard explains.
The university's accounting of the spring 2021 semester has reported 597 cases on campus since Jan. 19, and of those 504 are still considered active, 93 are considered recovered from COVID-19.
Villanova residential students account for 472 of the positive tests since the semester began, non-residential students have seen 118 positive tests, and employees of Villanova have reported 7 positive COVID-19 tests.
Villanova's Fall 2020 enrollment was just under 11,000. About 6,800 are undergraduate students.
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