Virginia Tech relocated residents of East Eggleston Hall in efforts to expand isolation space for students who test positive for COVID-19. Residents moved out of East Eggleston from Sept. 11 to Sept. 13 to other residence halls across campus where they will stay for the remainder of the year.
Virginia Tech began the fall semester with 172 isolation spaces where on-campus students will be able to complete their 14-day quarantine. With an increase to more than 500 on-campus positive COVID-19 cases, Virginia Tech decided to increase the number of rooms available for isolation space by filling rooms across campus and clearing East Eggleston entirely. “It was an opportunity to increase a resource that we hopefully don’t have to use, but if we need to use it is available to us,” said Assistant Vice President for University Relations Mark Owczarski. According to Owczarski, Virginia Tech provides on-campus housing for approximately 9,300 students; however, because of students deferring or remaining virtual for the fall semester, there are only 8,400 students currently living in the on-campus residence halls. Read the rest of The Collegiate Times story HERE.
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