COVID-19: Premier says time to ‘buckle down’ as N.S. reports 1 death, 13 new hospitalizations After a fall semester of hybrid learning, the university told students to return to campus this January.
This was despite a growing number of COVID-19 cases in the province, driven by the Omicron variant.“Online learning was going to be completely eliminated from the start of the term to the end of the term.
That was the plan two months ago,” fourth-year student Emily Fisher told Global News.Fisher said when COVID-19 cases shot up before the holiday break, the university planned to return to hybrid learning — which is a mix of on-campus and virtual classes — for the first two weeks of the winter semester.
After that, the school planned to proceed with in-class learning only.“People from New Brunswick, I know some folks from Montreal who made the trip back,” Fisher said.The semester began on Jan.