Weekly COVID-19 Update

Austin Peay's Weekly COVID-19 Update

Friday, Jan. 15, 2021

Follow APSU COVID-19 Guidelines

By following our in the fall, you helped keep our COVID-19 numbers well below average, allowing us to successfully complete the fall semester. With the spring semester quickly approaching, everyone must continue to take preventive measures to protect themselves and the University. This semester, we strongly recommend you get tested for COVID-19 (once) before returning to campus.

Get Tested for COVID-19

Commuter students

Testing is available at local county health departments, primary care clinics and urgent care centers. Even if you receive a negative test result, you need to continue wearing a mask indoors, maintaining six feet from other individuals and following Austin Peay’s COVID-19 guidelines.

Residential students

The University is recommending one-time surveillance testing of residential students at the Ard Building before move-in. Drive-through COVID-19 testing is available Monday-Friday, 7 a.m.-noon. Even if you receive a negative test result, you need to continue wearing a mask indoors, maintaining six feet from other individuals and following Austin Peay’s COVID-19 guidelines. For more information about COVID-19 testing at Austin Peay, please visit .

Note: Only those who have been exposed to a COVID-19 positive or are experiencing symptoms would need to quarantine and submit a in conjunction with return-to-campus testing.

Download Peay Mobile

If you haven’t already, please download Peay Mobile – our mobile app – so you can conduct your own daily wellness check for COVID-19 symptoms. You can download the app to most smartphones through their app store.

Govs Still Wear Masks

Remember when you return to campus this spring, you MUST wear a mask in indoor common spaces such as classrooms. Masks are also required outdoors when a physical distance of six feet or more cannot be maintained. We also ask you to practice physical distancing and frequently wash your hands (we have provided hand sanitizer stations throughout campus).

For additional information on our COVID-19 guidelines and academic changes or resources, visit . For information on health and counseling, visit .

Wear a Mask

Face coverings are required in all indoor common areas.

Wash Hands

To prevent the spread of germs, wash your hands often.

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Remember to socially distance on campus.

The numbers provided are active cases being tracked by University administration. Our data is reliant upon students, faculty and staff filling out the COVID-19 form on the APSU COVID-19 Website, .