Campus gyms will operate at 75% capacity and venue spaces will be capped at 1,000 people in accordance with current state restrictions. Convocation, a thrice-weekly campus assembly, will be streamed online at the start of the semester.

Campus Community, a weekly worship event normally held in the 10,000-seat Vines Center, will take place over two services at Thomas Road Baptist Church to allow for social distancing. Face coverings are required during the start and end of the service but are not mandatory during the praise and worship portions.

Social distancing requirements, which call for at least six feet of separation between individuals in most places on campus, will be enforced by campus security personnel and other employees, the plan states.

Libertys draft plan also outlines certain triggers that would force the school to transition to online-only education or to shutter much of campus.

Among the criteria that would lead to a shutdown include a government order, a lack of available testing or a lack of space to quarantine sick students. Liberty plans to house quarantining students at a former university-owned hotel located a few miles north of campus.

According to the plan, if 5% of Libertys total on-campus population including students, staff and faculty test positive for COVID-19, the school will suspend in-person instruction in favor of online education. If 15% become infected, Liberty will close the campus and dismiss students. Students unable to return home will be allowed to remain in campus dorms.

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Liberty University won't require COVID-19 test for returning students this fall - Lynchburg News and Advance