Several Michigan universities say faculty members and students are returning from trips to Chinaas the coronavirus outbreak grows worse.
A Michigan State University spokesman says the university did have a handful of faculty in China on university-sponsored business at the time the outbreak began. But spokesman Dan Olsen says they have all either left the country or are in the process of leaving China.
M-S-U is suspending university-sponsored travel to China for the next eight weeks.
Five University of Michigan faculty and students were in China at the time of the outbreak. A U of M spokesman says they have scheduled their flights home in the coming days or weeks.
University spokesman Rick Fitzgerald says the U of M faculty and students “all report being in good health.”
