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OSU Says Over Three Percent Of Students Test Positive For COVID-19

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia
Published September 3, 2020 at 5:15 AM EDT

State health officials Wednesday reported 1,109  new cases of COVID-19 and 11 new deaths. 

Ohio now has 126,767 cases  and 4,176 deaths.  Ohio State University Wednesday reported more than 3 percent of students and more than 1.6 percent of employees tested positive for COVID-19 as of August 31. During the 24-hour period that day, 5.7 percent of students tested on-campus and 9.66 percent of students tested off-campus were positive.
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Jim Letizia
Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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