ST. CLOUD TIMES— St. Cloud State officials at a seminar Thursday on the new coronavirus said the risk to campus is low, but they are canceling plans for 58 students to travel to China this summer for a study-abroad program.
The university is monitoring the outbreak and determined the risk to campus is low, Medical Director Brent Nielsen said at the seminar.
Nielsen joined university professors Hung Chih “Alvin” Yu, Giovanni Antunez and Mikhail “Misha” Blinnikov, as well as Sally Sands and Jill Ruder from Stearns County Public Health, for the seminar.
All non-essential travel to China from St. Cloud State been canceled, affecting 58 students with plans to study abroad there in summer programs, said Shahzad Ahmad, associate vice president of the Center for International Studies.
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