UNG COVID-19 Reporting & Confirmed Cases

UNG is requesting that all students, faculty, staff and visitors complete a daily self-screening for COVID-19 symptoms before returning to campus or interacting with the campus community face-to-face.

What To Do If You Have Symptoms
If you are experiencing symptoms associated with COVID-19, you should not come to campus.

UNG students and employees should report COVID-19 exposures, symptoms, or confirmed cases using our COVID-19 self-reporting form. Employees should also contact their supervisors. Reports for students are routed to the Dean of Students and reports for employees are routed to Human Resources.

If you believe that you are experiencing symptoms of COVID-19 or have been exposed to it, please contact your healthcare provider. If you are having chest pain, serious difficulty breathing, or another type of medical emergency, please call 911. The State of Georgia has a COVID-19 hotline: (844) 442-2681. You may call this number for additional screening and testing information.

Learn About COVID-19 Testing for Students

When You Can Return to Campus After Isolation
Isolation occurs when a person has been positively diagnosed with COVID-19.

Using the GDPH guidelines for discontinuing home isolation, the affected employees and students may return to campus when they have met all three of the following criteria:

No fever for at least 24 hours (without the use of fever-reducing medicines), AND

Improved symptoms, AND

Been at least 10 days since symptoms first appeared.

When You Can Return to Campus After Quarantine
Quarantine occurs when a person has been directly exposed to a person diagnosed with COVID-19.

Quarantine can end after day 10 without PCR testing, if no symptoms have been reported during daily monitoring. Person returns to work or school on day 11.

Quarantine can end after day 7, if a PCR test is administered at day 5 or later and the results are negative and person is asymptomatic. Person returns to work or school on day 8.

For complete details, review the GDPH Quarantine Guidance.

When a Positive Test is Reported
The Dean of Students or the Department of Public Safety will follow-up with every report to ensure that any necessary notifications of potential exposure are communicated and applicable public health guidance is followed.

Areas known to be used by an individual infected with COVID-19 will be isolated. Facilities staff will use most readily available and efficient sourcing for individual space decontamination:

Third-party services

UVC Moonbeam disinfection unit

Georgia National Guard fogging techniques

Contact Tracing and Notifications

Guided by the Centers for Disease Control and the Georgia Department of Public Health (GDPH), UNG is following established protocols for contact investigation and notification of impacted individuals. Consistent with those protocols, UNG will provide notifications of positive tests on a local level as warranted and GDPH oversees contact tracing and notification of persons who have had close contact with individuals in question.

Contact tracing by GDPH will be facilitated by case identification conducted by UNG. If you are deemed by GDPH to have increased risk because of exposure to these individuals, GDPH has the responsibility to notify you. In many cases, affected individuals may reach out to other individuals personally to make them aware.

COVID-19 Reporting

UNG Confirmed COVID-19 Cases

The University of North Georgia has a system in place to record self-reported test results and symptoms; to evaluate reporters' unique situations; and to support the university's COVID-19 related academic, employment and on-campus notification needs.

UNG presents the information below to provide current, relevant information about the status of the COVID-19 pandemic on our campuses as collected through our reporting system. Please note:

These numbers include reports by students and employees who have self-reported a positive COVID-19 test and the number of positive results from tests that the university has administered.
The totals may include reports from individuals who have not been on campus recently, there may be delays in reporting, and the reports may even include individuals who have recovered.
The university is legally bound to protect the health and privacy information of individual faculty, staff, and students. Privacy laws prevent us from identifying anyone on this list.
When UNG learns of positive cases, they are reported to the Georgia Department of Public Health (GDPH) in a timely manner and for the county where individuals reside. The GDPH Daily Status Report provides members of our community an accurate and relevant assessment of the number of cases in the areas where they live and work.

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Last updated: August 4, 2021
Confirmed case numbers will be updated twice weekly.

Confirmed Cases in the Past 14 Days

Covid cases confirmed between July 21 - August 4, 2021
Location	Student	Employee	Case Totals
Blue Ridge	0	0	0
Cumming	1	0	1
Dahlonega	5	2	7
Gainesville	1	2	3
Oconee	1	1	2
Online	0	0	0
Total Cases	8	5	13

Confirmed Cases Since August 1, 2021

Covid cases confirmed between August 1 - August 4, 2021
Location	Student	Case Totals
Blue Ridge	0	0
Cumming	1	1
Dahlonega	1	1
Gainesville	0	0
Oconee	0	0
Online	0	0
Total Cases	2	2

Reported Cases in the Past 14 Days

Covid cases reported between July 14 - August 4, 2021
Date Reported	Person	Campus	Impact
8/2/21	Student	Dahlonega Campus	This student has not been on campus for more than two weeks; no campus impact.
8/2/21	Student	Cumming Campus	This student has not been on campus for more than two weeks; no campus impact.
7/30/21	Employee	Gainesville Campus	Anyone who may have been in contact with the employee has been notified, and all health and safety protocols are being followed consistent with Georgia Department of Public Health Protocols.
7/29/21	Student	Dahlonega Campus	Anyone who may have been in contact with the student has been notified, and all health and safety protocols are being followed consistent with Georgia Department of Public Health Protocols.
7/28/21	Employee	Oconee Campus	Anyone who may have been in contact with the employee has been notified, and all health and safety protocols are being followed consistent with Georgia Department of Public Health Protocols.
7/28/21	Student	Dahlonega Campus	Anyone who may have been in contact with the student has been notified, and all health and safety protocols are being followed consistent with Georgia Department of Public Health Protocols.
7/27/21	Employee	Gainesville Campus	Anyone who may have been in contact with the employee has been notified, and all health and safety protocols are being followed consistent with Georgia Department of Public Health Protocols.
7/26/21	Student	Oconee Campus	Anyone who may have been in contact with the student has been notified, and all health and safety protocols are being followed consistent with Georgia Department of Public Health Protocols.
7/25/21	Student	Dahlonega Campus	Anyone who may have been in contact with the student has been notified, and all health and safety protocols are being followed consistent with Georgia Department of Public Health Protocols.
7/24/21	Employee	Dahlonega Campus	Anyone who may have been in contact with the employee has been notified, and all health and safety protocols are being followed consistent with Georgia Department of Public Health Protocols.
7/24/21	Employee	Dahlonega Campus	Anyone who may have been in contact with the employee has been notified, and all health and safety protocols are being followed consistent with Georgia Department of Public Health Protocols.
7/21/21	Student	Dahlonega Campus	Anyone who may have been in contact with the student has been notified, and all health and safety protocols are being followed consistent with Georgia Department of Public Health Protocols.

Confirmed Cases Archive

Covid cases confirmed between August 1 - December 31, 2020
Location	Student	Employee	Case Totals
Blue Ridge	1	2	3
Cumming	12	3	15
Dahlonega	332	62	394
Gainesville	184	22	206
Oconee	131	1	132
Online	2	0	2
Total Cases	662	90	752