{shortcode-664e72d240c46d17ba157bb8b9007815d2e407ce}

As students, faculty, and staff trickle back to campus, Harvard has set up a testing apparatus aimed at stopping the spread of coronavirus. Students living in campus housing have to get tested three times each week; most other affiliates have to get tested once a week.

Still, there are some factors Harvard can’t entirely account for, including the hundreds of students moving into off-campus housing in Cambridge and Boston over the next several weeks. At other colleges and universities across the country, off-campus housing has been the locus of several COVID-19 outbreaks, in some cases causing schools to shift their reopening plans entirely online. It remains unclear whether those students will cause a rise in Cambridge’s case count.

Below is a summary of the data Harvard and the city of Cambridge have reported about test results in the area.

Last updated on December 5, 2020 at 10:18 a.m.

{shortcode-c3e9e5218647dc30dcbef9e2826fd3e939939ac4}

{shortcode-b0a642cab673ad6a2da9d72cf224f20da2d59448}

{shortcode-8156ce0e99051da1261a96418824ed5dc10d1a5c}

{shortcode-484a5e4a8a4cdf934df993b406ddafcbb8fa0aa7}