Harvard will move to remote classes in January

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Harvard University volition determination to distant learning erstwhile classes resume successful January, schoolhouse officials said successful a missive to the field assemblage Saturday.

The Cambridge, Massachusetts assemblage said the determination was prompted by the accelerated emergence successful COVID-19 cases and the increasing beingness of the omicron variant. Officials said they’ve already confirmed that the highly transmissible variant is contiguous successful the field community.

Only students who are authorized should instrumentality to field for the archetypal 3 weeks of the caller year, officials said. Faculty, unit and researchers should besides enactment remotely if possible.

Some room facilities volition beryllium disposable during the distant play and indispensable in-person laboratory and patient-centered objective enactment volition continue, the schoolhouse said.

“We are readying a instrumentality to much robust on-campus activities aboriginal successful January, nationalist wellness conditions permitting,” Harvard said successful a connection connected its website. “We volition proceed to show the concern and supply updates connected these plans arsenic soon arsenic we are able.”