Salve Regina University in Newport is delaying the start of the spring semester by one week because of coronavirus concerns.Classes at Salve will now begin on January 17th.Meanwhile, Rhode Island appears to trending towards having its institutions of higher learning require booster shots for next semester.Joining the list are Bryant University and the Rhode Island School of Design.
The announcement from the University comes at a time that the entire state is seeing an increase in cases of the coronavirus.
Rhode Island reported nine new coronavirus deaths on Wednesday.The pandemic death toll in the Ocean State increased to three-thousand-15.
There were over 14-hundred new virus cases.
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