Shock Amid Urgent Move-Out Order at NYC Student Housing Hit With COVID-19 Death | NBC New York

Hundreds of people living in Upper Manhattan's International House have been scrambling to find last minute housing after being told to move out within eight days as a staff member tested positive for COVID-19 and a fellow resident died.

Residents of International House South -- a dormitory-style housing offering near Columbia University -- got an email last Thursday from administrators stating that a staff member in the residence had tested positive for coronavirus and residents needed to be out by the following Friday. Late Saturday, tenants got another email saying one of the residents had died from COVID-19 complications.

The news and related move-out order sent residents -- many of whom are international -- into a desperate rush to find alternate accomodation. Many of the residents are students at nearby Columbia University.

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