I am a West Rez student in a dormitory affected by COVID-19

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NOTIFICATIONS

The Middlesex-London Health Unit has announced the outbreak. The university informed all Saugeen-Maitland residents that eight students tested positive. Those students, and their close contacts, have been moved to a secret quarantine area.

THE WEATHER

Alarming at any time, a COVID-19 outbreak in a student dormitory at the end of the term adds much more stress for students busy with their final assignments and upcoming exams, and some, like Ngo, thinking ahead of travel plans for the holidays to go home. The IEP, where NGO will be headed in two weeks, has low rates of the virus and has had no deaths.

“There aren’t many cases in (IEP),” he said. “I want to be responsible. Eight cases worry me. I’m being very careful right now. “

LIFE IN A PLAGUE IN sleeper

Due to the pandemic, there are no shared rooms in the residence. All accommodations on campus, including Ngo, have their own room. The buildings of the school residence are occupied for about 70%, for a total of about 4,000 students.

Built in 1969, Saugeen-Maitland has 12 floors, 36 wings, 1,250 beds, a dining room and three music rooms.

“Before that we got to meet new people, but now it’s on lockdown,” Ngo said.

Under COVID-19, residents on each floor have a set time to collect their meals and eat them in their room. We don’t eat in the canteens.

Students are trying to make the most of it, despite the isolation and severity of the epidemic, Ngo said. “It’s not bad, we can still talk on, like, Snapchat or other social media. We can’t meet anymore.”