{"id":1773,"date":"2020-10-02T12:11:54","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T16:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-health-center\/?p=1773"},"modified":"2020-10-02T12:11:54","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T16:11:54","slug":"covid-case-report-week-ending-thursday-october-1-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-health-center\/2020\/10\/02\/covid-case-report-week-ending-thursday-october-1-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID Case Report: Week Ending Thursday, October 1, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Here is the weekly report of confirmed cases of COVID-19 on the Montclair State University campus for the week ending Thursday, October 1.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Eight new confirmed cases of COVID-19 were reported this week. Seven are students and one is an employee. All are isolating and doing well.<\/p>\n<p>Their close contacts are being notified and placed in quarantine, as required by our policy.<\/p>\n<p>These new cases bring the total number of confirmed cases on campus since the start of the fall semester to 18 (16 students, two employees).<\/p>\n<p>University Health Center Director Patricia Ruiz reminds all members of the campus community that they are required to follow the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/redhawk-restart\/general-safeguards\/\">general safeguards<\/a> to reduce the risk of spreading the virus, including wearing face coverings (covering both your mouth and nose), observing social distancing, practicing good hand hygiene and covering coughs and sneezes.<\/p>\n<p>Students, faculty and staff must complete <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/redhawk-restart\/about-hawkcheck\/\">Hawk Check<\/a> 6 to 14 hours before coming to campus, and no one may come to campus if they are sick or exposed to COVID-19 in the last 2 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who becomes aware of a potential case should encourage the person to complete Hawk Check, and may also share that information confidentially with the University Health Center through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-services\/2020\/08\/26\/how-to-report-covid-policy-violations\/\">Rave Guardian app<\/a> or by sending an email to Patricia Ruiz at <a href=\"mailto:ruizp@montclair.edu\">ruizp@montclair.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the weekly report of confirmed cases of COVID-19 on the Montclair State University campus for the week ending Thursday, October 1. Eight new confirmed cases of COVID-19 were reported this week. Seven are students and one is an employee. All are isolating and doing well. Their close contacts are being notified and placed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coronavirus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-health-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-health-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-health-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-health-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-health-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-health-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1774,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-health-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions\/1774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-health-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-health-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-health-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-health-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}