Harvard University will go remote again in January due to the spread of the Omicron variant.
“Please know that we do not take this step lightly,” university president Lawrence Bacow wrote in a memo to students and staff sent Saturday and obtained by The Post. “Public health experts anticipate the increase in COVID-19 cases to continue, driven by the Omicron variant, which we have now confirmed is already present in our campus community.”
Omicron would “potentially” peak in the first few weeks of January, Bacow said, leading the Cambridge, Mass.-based university to close down once again, this time for only “the first three weeks” of 2022.
“We are planning a return to more robust on-campus activities later in January, public health conditions permitting,” he said.
One Harvard student welcomed the move.
“Being on campus with all the testing, the masking, the restrictions kind of defeats the purpose of in-person learning anyway. I’d rather take classes from a beach,” the student said. “If we’re gonna be remote, then at least lower my f**king tuition!”
