UNL seeing significantly low positivity rate 

The current positivity rate at UNL is 0.57%, which is down compared to last week's 0.74%.

LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) – Half a percent! That’s the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s COVID-19 positivity rate, something they’re pretty proud of.

The current positivity rate at UNL is 0.57%, which is down compared to last week’s 0.74%. According to their COVID-19 Dashboard, only 84 COVID-19 cases were reported within the last 14 days.

The University says their emphasis on rapid testing and quick reacting is a huge contributing factor to their half a percent positivity rate.

“Because we were able to get students into isolation and quarantine fast; we haven’t seen much spread on campus and the number of cases that we have had on a daily basis has remained relatively low compared to our experience in the fall,” Bob Wilhelm, Vice Chancellor of Research and Economic Development at UNL said.

Rapid testing has been done to all students since the beginning of the year when they arrived back on campus for spring semester. Multiple testing sites have been placed on school grounds for their students.

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has decided to cancel their Spring Break, which was scheduled to take place next week.

“We would have had a big dispersion of people spreading out across the state and also across the country and then coming back in again,” Wilhelm said. “We wanted to avoid that opportunity for more spread.”

Due to the success UNL has had in keeping cases down and testing up, they’re now looking to the future. This fall, the University plans to operate classrooms again at full capacity and zoom classes will be a rare exception.