Officials at Harper College in Palatine are informing the varsity group {that a} pupil on the northwest suburban group faculty could have been uncovered to coronavirus.
In an electronic mail despatched to college students Thursday, the varsity’s president, Avis Proctor, mentioned officers have been “looking into a report that a Harper College student may have been exposed to coronavirus.”
There haven’t been any confirmed circumstances of the virus in Harper College college students, college or employees, the e-mail famous.
Friday, a Chicago couple who contracted coronavirus have been launched from a Hoffman Estates hospital and can be in dwelling isolation, well being officers have mentioned. They are the one individuals in Illinois to have examined optimistic for the lethal virus, which has killed greater than 800 individuals in China because it was recognized in December.
The Illinois Department of Public Health is presently awaiting testing outcomes for 21 individuals who could have been uncovered to the virus exams, in response to the division’s web site. Twenty-six individuals within the state who’ve beforehand been examined have already examined adverse for the virus.
Contributing: Associated Press