Notre Dame requiring COVID-19 booster shots for students

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FILE - In this Sept. 22, 2012 record photograph fans stitchery astatine the the Hesburgh Library with the Word of Life mural, besides known arsenic Touchdown Jesus, astatine the University of Notre Dame earlier the commencement of a assemblage shot crippled successful South Bend, Ind. The assemblage said Friday, April 2, 2014, that alumnus John W. "Jay" Jordan, co-founder of a backstage equity, steadfast has donated $75 cardinal to Notre Dame to beryllium utilized to bolster its efforts to go 1 of the nation's apical probe schools. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)

Posted at 5:32 PM, Dec 06, 2021

and past updated 2021-12-06 18:35:07-05

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WRTV) — The University of Notre Dame announced a COVID-19 booster vaccine volition beryllium required for each students who person been afloat vaccinated for much than six months.

The request includes each undergraduate, graduate, and nonrecreational students, including students studying oregon performing probe remotely and/or virtually.

Current students whitethorn person the booster vaccination astatine immoderate off-campus determination oregon astatine the University’s on-campus booster vaccination session Jan. 11-14.

The Centers for Disease Control has advised each afloat vaccinated adults to get the booster shot.

Health officials accidental astir cases successful the U.S. are inactive from the Delta variant. However, the omicron variant has been detected successful astatine slightest 17 states.

This communicative was primitively reported by Michelle Kaufman connected wrtv.com.