44 UT students returned from Mexico with coronavirus, university officials say

Forty-four University of Texas students who returned to Austin from a spring break trip to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, have tested positive for the coronavirus, UT officials said Wednesday.

The university had previously confirmed only 28 of those cases.

In total, 59 UT students have either tested positive or are presumed positive. However, since most students have returned home after the university shifted its classes online, other students could have contracted the virus without reporting it to school officials, UT spokesman J.B. Bird said.

The company that ran the Cabo trip, JusCollege, comes to UT and other campuses every year to recruit attendees. In the days leading up to the trip, JusCollege sent messages to registrants saying the trip was still on, and no travelers from other trips had become sick, according to UT students. JusCollege also offered travel insurance through a third party, but it didn’t cover a pandemic, students said.