SIU Workers Respond After Two Students Test Positive For COVID-19

Apr 1, 2020 | 8:56 AM

(Carbondale, IL) — Southern Illinois University food service and university hall workers are concerned for their safety after two students tested positive for COVID-19. University officials required 21 others to be quarantined as a precautionary measure. The school is serving students grab-and-go meals that students pick up, causing culinary workers to have fears of picking up the virus. Union-represented culinary employees are requesting that the university close its residence halls and send students home.

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