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Some Louisiana colleges and universities have adjusted their spring semester plans to respond to the omicron variant, though they’re taking varying approaches.
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Students at two public schools in Algiers will switch to remote learning starting Thursday, joining the growing number of children across the city who are learning online temporarily due to the omicron variant.
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Louisiana marked a new record high for daily COVID-19 cases reported to the state on Thursday, with 14,007 new cases reported.
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Louisiana’s public schools will reopen this week largely as planned, many without implementing guidance from the state’s health department meant to slow the omicron variant’s spread.
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Demand for COVID-19 tests is soaring in Louisiana amid the omicron surge, leading to longer wait times, shortages of rapid tests and forcing state officials to compete with other states on the open market.
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Louisiana is at the beginning of its most aggressive COVID-19 surge and it's unclear when cases will peak, Gov. John Bel Edwards told reporters at a virtual media briefing Thursday.
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The city will expand its mandate in 2022 to include children 5 and older. The city health director said “there was no good scientific or educational reason to wait.”
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Tulane University undergraduates will start the spring semester a week later than planned, officials announced Thursday, citing the national surge in COVID-19 cases driven by the omicron variant.
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Tulane University undergraduate students now have the option of completing the fall semester online, officials announced Sunday, citing a recent surge in COVID-19 cases.
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