Students to complete COVID-19 home testing prior to return on campus
Before arriving on campus, Notre Dame students will be required to provide a specimen for a COVID-19 PCR test, the coronavirus response unit said in an email Wednesday.Students will be mailed a home collection kit to their current place of residence by LabCorp, who will process the results. Specimen collection will be staggered depending on when students plan to arrive on campus, and by July 15, all students will be notified by when they must complete their test.“The kit package will include a set of instructions for how to collect a home specimen from the anterior nasal passage and how to send it back to LabCorp for processing,” Christine Caron Gebhardt, assistant vice president for student services and Tracy Skibins, senior director of emergency management, said in the email.The specimen must be returned to a FedEx Drop Box on the same day as collection. Otherwise, it cannot be processed and students will be charged a $75 replacement fee.LabCorp will provide University Health Services (UHS) with the results, and once they are confirmed, students will receive an email to view the test results. Students who test negative will be cleared to return to campus.“UHS will let Residential Life know the on-campus students who are cleared to return to campus, though test results will not be shared,” the email said. “Students moving on-campus will receive a confirmation email from Residential Life confirming their move-in appointment.”Students who test positive may not return to campus even if they are asymptomatic, and UHS will contact these students for clearance.“If you become ill with symptoms of COVID-19 or are exposed to someone with COVID-19 between the time of your test and your arrival, you must delay travel and contact your health care provider for evaluation,” the email said.Tags: coronavirus response unit, COVID-19, pre matriculation
Group buying has become the 21st century answer to rising costs across services like electricity, gas, solar panels, health insurance, internet costs and home loans, says mortgage aggregator site HashChing chief executive Mandeep Sodhi.“It will become a big norm,” he says.“People are already used to group buys like The Big Switch and Groupon. They get the concept. This could be a market disrupter but it’s also giving the power back to the consumer.”Video Player is loading.Play VideoPlayNext playlist itemMuteCurrent Time 0:00/Duration 1:35Loaded: 0%Stream Type LIVESeek to live, currently playing liveLIVERemaining Time -1:35 Playback Rate1xChaptersChaptersDescriptionsdescriptions off, selectedCaptionscaptions settings, opens captions settings dialogcaptions off, selectedQuality Levels720p720pHD540p540p360p360p270p270pAutoA, selectedAudio Trackdefault, selectedFullscreenThis is a modal window.Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window.TextColorWhiteBlackRedGreenBlueYellowMagentaCyanTransparencyOpaqueSemi-TransparentBackgroundColorBlackWhiteRedGreenBlueYellowMagentaCyanTransparencyOpaqueSemi-TransparentTransparentWindowColorBlackWhiteRedGreenBlueYellowMagentaCyanTransparencyTransparentSemi-TransparentOpaqueFont Size50%75%100%125%150%175%200%300%400%Text Edge StyleNoneRaisedDepressedUniformDropshadowFont FamilyProportional Sans-SerifMonospace Sans-SerifProportional SerifMonospace SerifCasualScriptSmall CapsReset restore all settings to the default valuesDoneClose Modal DialogEnd of dialog window.This is a modal window. This modal can be closed by pressing the Escape key or activating the close button.Close Modal DialogThis is a modal window. This modal can be closed by pressing the Escape key or activating the close button.PlayMuteCurrent Time 0:00/Duration 0:00Loaded: 0%Stream Type LIVESeek to live, currently playing liveLIVERemaining Time -0:00 Playback Rate1xFullscreenHousing affordability 01:35 Related videos 01:35Housing affordability 01:15Property Investment Explained00:51Household Debt01:13Affordability Stamp Duty Changes02:00How leverage works02:09Rental AffordabilityHashChing’s deal involves the creation of $5m loan books — made up of a maximum of 10 salaried owner occupiers on $500,000 minimum mortgages.Lenders have five days to bid on the book, after which time borrowers choose which deal they like best.“We can’t say how low it could go but what I can say is we have 3.56 per cent as the lowest rate on our platform now. So any lender will have to beat that rate otherwise the borrower will ask what’s the point of joining a group.”More from newsMould, age, not enough to stop 17 bidders fighting for this homeless than 1 hour agoBuyers ‘crazy’ not to take govt freebies, says 28-yr-old investorless than 1 hour agoHashChing gets paid a fee of 0.4 per cent of the settlement figure by the lender.“We are seeing a lot of interest from smaller lenders and even international lenders. Obviously they will be more aggressive. There is some pressure on these lenders.”Patrick Tyro, pictured with son Cal at their Cashmere home, was looking to save several hundred dollars a month by switching to a lower group interest rate. Picture: AAP/Josh WoningBrisbane father-of-three Patrick Tyro-Burns hoped people power would cut several hundred dollars off his monthly mortgage costs.His Cashmere home was currently on a variable rate of 5.25 per cent with St George and he’s hoping to slash up to 2 percentage points off that rate. A fresh push to force lenders to slash interest rates to as low as 3 per cent could be a gamechanger for Queensland families.With the lowest individual refinancing rate already 3.49 per cent, there’s growing hope that group buying could drive down costs further, becoming as commonplace as lotto syndicates.Group buying is becoming more and more popular. 