By Madelin Shelton —
The University of Louisville reported 53 positive cases of COVID-19 during its first week of testing. This number was out of a total of 2,621 administered tests, a 2.02% positivity rate.
This number does not include the 85 recently confirmed COVID cases within the athletics department.As of now, the university has a total of 138 confirmed cases.
The numbers were released on Aug. 18 on U of L’s new webpage dedicated to testing statistics, it will be updated every Tuesday by Campus Health Services.
Only tests done on the Belknap and Health Sciences Center campuses will be reported to the dashboard.