Temple University has officially announced that they will be going to fully online classes for the remainder of the semester.

In the official announcement, President Richard M. Englert said that "Essentials-only courses are those for which educational objectives cannot be achieved without all or some in-person instruction. We estimate that 95 percent of courses will be online for the remainder of the semester."

If students currently on campus leave by September 13, they will get a full refund on room and board.

Initially, when classes started at Temple in late August there were only a few cases. According to The Inquirer:

"Temple earlier this month launched a website that will make public the number of cases currently on the campus. As of Monday, the site noted 10 cases among students, eight on campus and two off."

However, as of today, there are 211 on-campus cases and one off-campus case. That is a massive jump in the span of only a few weeks.

But it is not the only university in the country that has experienced massive jumps in cases. The University of Alabama recorded over 500 cases in its first week.

The case jump at Temple proves that coronavirus is still a very real issue and that person-to-person spreading is still something we legitimately need to be aware of.