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Appalachian State, UNCC Delay Return To Campus

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Appalachian State University is pushing back the return to campus schedule after a spike in Watauga County's COVID-19 cases.

Remote classes for the spring semester at Appalachian will begin as scheduled January 19. But in-person classes have been postponed until Feb. 1, and students will be informed about when they can return to their residence halls.

In a message to the Appalachian community, university officials say modeling data suggest a surge of COVID cases in the western part of the state in the next two weeks.

Last week, the university conducted more than 800 tests with 26 positive results. That's the highest positivity rate at the school since October.

UNC Charlotte also recently announced a delay in the return to campus until Feb. 22. Online classes will begin as scheduled on Jan. 20.

For the most up-to-date information on coronavirus in North Carolina, visit our Live Updates blog here. WFDD wants to hear your stories — connect with us and let us know what you're experiencing.

 

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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