Ferrini-Mundy, Dana talk with media about COVID-19 testing on campus
WGME (Channel 13) interviewed UMaine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy and Robert Dana, vice president for student life and inclusive excellence and dean of students at UMaine, about campus testing facilities and procedures in advance of the return of 6,000 students to Orono this week. “COVID is among us, and it’s a powerful reminder that we have to live with its unpredictability while putting in place all of the measures we can,” Ferrini-Mundy said following detection of three student cases on Friday. Dana described campus testing procedures to Maine Public. “The students will go through a large six-bay tent, where they will be rapidly tested and then they will await in their rooms, where they will self-quarantine, for their results, which we hope to have back in a maximum time of 48 hours,” Dana said. CentralMaine.com, WABI, WVII and the Bangor Daily News also reported on UMaine plans to welcome students back safely.