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Campuses are reporting more transmission with omicron
Students walk by a sculpture of Goldy Gopher on the plaza outside Coffman Memorial Union Monday at the University of Minnesota.
Minnesota colleges are reporting large spikes in COVID-19 cases on their campuses at the start of the spring semester, indicating the omicron variant is surging through their highly vaccinated communities in a way previous strains of the virus did not.
Nearly 1 in 4 University of Minnesota students who tested for COVID-19 at the Twin Cities campus' clinic between Jan. 6-13 were positive, according to data published Friday showing 253 positive student and employee cases out of 1,093 tests taken. Most U students are back on campus Tuesday for the start of spring semester classes.
"Our goal is to safely maintain continuity and in-person instruction but we recognize that Omicron is surging," U President Joan Gabel said in a message to students last week.
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