Benedictine COVID Cases (8-25-20)

Benedictine COVID Cases (8-25-20)

19 cases.

Days after returning to campus and settling in, the school reports... there are now 68 active cases at the catholic liberal arts college in atchison.

Benedictine officials provided mass testing on campus for every student, teacher, and staff member.

The campus population sits at about 2,500 people.

Student athletes were required to test and other students could have written approval to opt out... the last update on benedictine's webiste, dated august 20th, had the college with 36 students and 4 employees who had contracted the virus.

This is a nearly 59% jump in cases.

Now to the latest numbers on