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By order of the Governor, all public and private schools and colleges in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, including Northern Marianas College, are directed to close for ten days effective today, October 29, 2021, to mitigate against community spread of COVID-19. This action follows the confirmation of three new COVID-19 cases in the community, two of which are connected to Saipan middle schools. NMC classes will transition to remote instruction where possible for the duration of the closure. Affected individuals have been quarantined and contact tracing is underway through CHCC's Communicable Disease Investigation team.
This text has been reconstructed from news coverage and may not reflect the exact original wording.
This was a territory-wide closure order naming schools and colleges together; NMC, the CNMI's only institution of higher education, was directed to close alongside the K-12 public school system.
The Northern Mariana Islands observe Chamorro Standard Time (ChST), UTC+10 year-round, with no daylight saving time.
Three new cases, two tied to Chacha Oceanview Middle School and Francisco M. Sablan Middle School, brought the CNMI's cumulative COVID-19 total to 294 since its first recorded case on March 28, 2020.