Champaign CountyではCOVID-19さらなる感染拡大
Harukana Show Podcast No.493-1を作成している間にも、Champaing Countyではさらに陽性者数は増え、9月5日現在では、85oとなっています(主にイリノイ大学のキャンパスタウン)。No.493-2に新たな情報を追加します。
9月4日に開かれたUIUC JPN COVID-19 Town Hallでは、Tatsuyaさんが抜粋された関連記事を共有します。Tatsuyaさん、今週も貴重な情報をありがとうございます。
Selected COVID-19 News: IL & C-U、8/29-9/4
- (9/2) Coronavirus response | After uptick in cases, UI stepping up enforcement, asking students to limit in-person activities “While the first week of testing matched the UI’s expectations for how many cases would be brought into the community, the numbers haven’t decreased since then, as was expected, according to officials”“[At the current pace of growth], as many as 8,000 people could be infected this semester, according to the UI, and 300 to 400 people would need to be added to the quarantine each day.”
- (9/2) Coronavirus response | UI begins two weeks of enhanced enforcement
- “More than 1,000 cases have been confirmed on campus since move-in began, with more than 700 since the initial entry screening”
- (9/1) Tuesday’s coronavirus updates: Modeler: New UI campus cases ‘higher than we would like’; 56 more cases in Champaign County“This number is higher than we would like, and arises for the reasons that you wrote about today,” Goldenfeld said. – “Campus officials said some students who have tested positive have broken isolation to to try to retest and get a better result.”
- (9/1) Updated: Two students suspended at UI; more than 100 under investigation
- “And some students who have tested positive have broken their isolation to try to retest and get a better result.” – “Those who test positive are supposed to wait at least 10 days in isolation before getting tested again”
- “80 people with COVID-19 are using isolation beds, spokeswoman Robin Kaler said, and 93 are still available on campus.” “Another 47 people with possible exposure to the coronavirus are using UI quarantine beds, and 228 beds are still available”
Champaign/Urbana両市のEmergency Orderに変更・追加
Tatsuyaさんからさらなるお知らせがありました。「C-U地区の新規感染者数が急増していることを受け、Champaign/Urbana両市のEmergency Orderに変更・追加がありました。概要は以下の二点です」
●Champaign市が、EO 20-25(Campus Town内のレストラン・バーの店内飲食禁止等)を9月16日まで延長(当初の有効期限は9月8日)。Emergency Order 20-25 Amendment1 (9月4日付)
●Urbana市が、Campus地域内のレストラン・バーにおける店内飲食を禁止する新たなEO(20-10)を発令。Emergency Order 20-10, 9月5日夕方5時に発効。
COV-Course: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Pandemic
This non-credit course is free of cost and open to all. Classes will be held online from 8:00–9:00 p.m. every Sunday evening during the fall semester. See the course schedule for details about the instructors and topics covered.Course Schedule

