Tufts University is reconstructing the tennis court area on Professor Row to make way for portable dorms to be used as a separation area for any students who may contract Covid-19.

Approximately 6,000 undergraduate students are expected to return to Tufts this coming year. Everyone is required to wear masks and cleaning procedures will be followed according to CDC regulations.

All students will be tested for the virus twice a week. This way if one tests positive, they can move the student from their living space to the portable dorm while they are asymptomatic before they have a chance to spread the virus.

There are going to be more than 200 modular units for these students to live in and be isolated for two weeks. The rooms vary in size but on average they are 12 x 60 ft. The estimated cost of this lease project is approximately 6 million dollars for two-year period.

These units were made in Canada, then sent to California to help out during the wild fires, and now they are here at Tufts to help with this situation.