August 3, 2022 - Northern Michigan University reinstated a mask mandate for in-person classrooms and labs, effective Aug. 1, in response to an uptick in local COVID cases that has elevated Marquette County to the CDC’s “high transmission” category.

The university will continue to provide free KN95, N95 and KF94 masks throughout the academic year for those who choose to wear them and for any periods when mask requirements are reinstated. Masks can be picked up at the NMU Police Department and the Dean of Students.

President Kerri Schuiling provided an update of NMU’s pandemic protocols heading into the fall semester in an email to the campus community.

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Source: <https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/nmu-reinstates-mask-mandate-following-rise-in-covid-19-cases/ar-AA10elGO>