Ivy League campus shuts down over suspected Omicron cases

Cornell University is shutting down its Ithaca, New York campus after finding an outbreak of Covid-19 among 3% of the students, possibly caused by the Omicron variant.Cornell President Martha E. Pollack said on Tuesday the school is moving to “alert level red” after their “surveillance” testing found “rapid spread” of Covid-19 among students.
The school said it suspects that “a significant number” of detected infections have been caused by the Omic