Fifty-seven positive COVID-19 cases were reported last week by St. Thomas’ Center for Well-Being Monday, a decrease of 46 from the previous week.

Two new opportunities for mass testing will come up on Tuesday, Dec. 8 and Thursday, Dec. 17 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., according to Vice President for Student Affairs Karen Lange.

These tests will be saliva polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests administered by Vault Health, similar to the previous mass-testing event.

Lange said that she hopes the testing event next week is able to “catch people that come back after Thanksgiving” and that the Dec. 17 event allows students to leave with peace in mind before they go home for the holidays.

The university has not announced this to the St. Thomas community as of this news brief, and more details will be released soon.

Earlier Monday, Arizona officials certified Biden’s narrow victory in that state.

Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs and Republican Gov. Doug Ducey both vouched for the integrity of the election before signing off on the results.

Wisconsin and Arizona, certified their presidential election results in favor of Joe Biden, even as President Donald Trump’s legal team continued to dispute the results.

Police won’t be opening a major investigation into the disappearance of a mysterious silver-colored monolith that generated international attention and a mess when curious visitors made their way to the site of the discovery in the Utah desert.

The sheriff in San Juan County says the office doesn’t have the resources to devote much time and energy to the taking of the object, which was illegal to begin with because it was placed without permission amid red rocks on a remote section of public land. Its creator also remains a mystery.

Mae Macfarlane can be reached at mae.macfarlane@stthomas.edu.