Coronavirus (COVID-19) Response
Updates and Information for the Notre Dame Community
The University of California Washington Center has elected to close its housing in the nation's capital, where students in the Notre Dame Washington Program reside. Alternative housing arrangements in D.C. are being made for them.
As the University pauses for spring break, we are writing to provide an update on the coronavirus outbreak.
The University has created a website – coronavirus.nd.edu – where you can find resources and updates on this worldwide health concern and Notre Dame’s response to it. Please feel free to share the URL with parents, guardians, emergency contacts and others who may be seeking information on Notre Dame’s response.
Since news of a new coronavirus in China became widely known in January, Notre Dame’s leadership has been working on our response to this worldwide health emergency and making contingency plans for future developments.
Dear Members of the Notre Dame Community,
With the safety of all of our students, faculty, and staff as our top priority, the decision today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to raise the advisory against non-essential travel for Italy to Warning Level 3 due to an increasing spread of the novel coronavirus has prompted Notre Dame officials to make the difficult but necessary decision to end all programming at the Rome Global Gateway for the remainder of the semester.…
Dear Notre Dame Students, Faculty, and Staff,
The wellbeing of all members of the Notre Dame community is our highest priority. To that end, for the past six weeks, University officials have been closely monitoring the global threat posed by the new coronavirus (COVID-19). Now, with Notre Dame’s spring break approaching and the virus spreading beyond China, we are writing to provide new information and updates.…
Dear Notre Dame Students, Faculty, and Staff,
As most of you know, there is understandable concern in this country and abroad over the outbreak of a respiratory illness caused by a new strain of coronavirus. The illness originated in Wuhan, China, but has spread to other countries, including the United States.…