ANU students test negative to Covid, all residences released from quarantine

The final two students waiting for test results have been cleared and students from the remaining residences, Burton and Garran Hall and Wright Hall, are now under the same stay-at-home rules as the rest of the territory.

On Thursday evening, eight campus residences were sent into isolation after about a dozen students were deemed close contacts.

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All residents were deemed secondary contacts and confined to their rooms until test results came through.

Students across several halls were released on Friday and Saturday, and the final two have now joined them.

The students who are close contacts will continue to isolate for 14-days in self-contained apartments.

An ANU spokesman said additional cleaning and hygiene measures were in place across the residence halls with communal areas.

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