USyd and UNSW Confirm COVID-19 Cases

The University of Sydney has confirmed its first case of COVID-19 in an email to all students yesterday. Students and staff in the Arts and Science faculties who have been identified as being in close proximity with the first-year student will be contacted. The University will remain open and classes will continue this week.  

“This student is relatively well and receiving appropriate medical care and we wish them a quick recovery,” Vice-Chancellor Michael Spence said in the email. 

The rooms and spaces where the student attended include the Physics Road Building (Dry Lab LG03), Education Building (Seminar Room 618), Carslaw (Room 452 and Seminar Room 355), Old Teachers College (Psychology Computer Lab 403) and Brennan McCallum (Room 110). All of these spaces have been cleaned to NSW Health protocols. 

This comes as the University begins to transition to online learning with some students being notified that their classes have been moved online. 

While remaining classes will continue as normal, students who prefer not to attend in-person classes will not be penalised, as Pulp discovered via University of Sydney social media channels.

An email from the UNSW Vice Chancellor has also been sent out to UNSW students today, confirming a student from the Business School has tested positive for COVID-19. NSW Health advised that the student was not contagious while on campus and immediately went into self-isolation.

More updates to come.