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By Blake Haas
CHAMPAIGN – As cases of COVID-19 surge, the University of Illinois announced their three campuses would start the spring semester with remoting learning.
According to a news release, the Chicago campus will move to remote learning for two weeks, starting Jan. 10, while the Urbana-Champaign campus will move to remote learning for one week from Jan. 18-23.
The university’s third campus in Springfield is set to return to in-person classes as scheduled.
Regardless of vaccination status, the school said all students, faculty, and staff are required to get a COVID-19 class before returning to the classroom.
The school said students in residential housing are required to get a weekly COVID-19 test.
At last count, the COVID-19 vaccination rate at all campuses is more than 95%.
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