MAINE – The University of Maine system will be offering coronavirus testing to all seven of its universities as students and faculty return to campuses state-wide this upcoming fall semester.
According to he University of Maine System Chancellor Dannel Malloy, out-of-state students and faculty will likely take higher priority for testing. As well as students who may have to spend time in close-quarters with one another, meaning student athletes.
Current state guidelines will require out-of-state students to either test negative within three days of returning to campus, or quarantine for fourteen days until they test negative for the virus. Out-of-staters will be
“Our recommendation will likely be that you get tested at home, but having understood that not everyone will be able to attain that, then we’ll have a testing system available when those individuals return to campus,” Malloy said Tuesday.
To do this, UMaine will be partnering with the New Hampshire- based ConvenientMD, to collect samples from returning students. Those samples will be tested by The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor.
The PCR tests that will be offered are among the most reliable tests currently available.
