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COVID-19: State Sets Threshold For Closing Colleges COVID-19: State Sets Threshold For Closing Colleges
Covid-19: State Sets Threshold For Closing Colleges As New York colleges get set to welcome students back to campus amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the state has set guidelines before they will be shut back down due to the virus. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that there is a closure threshold for colleges and universities that will force a college to cancel in-person classes and transition to remote classes over at least a two-week period. According to the state, if a campus has an outbreak of more than 100 positive COVID-19 cases or an outbreak that equals more than 5 percent of the population, it will have to turn to remote learning bef…