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Unwell Lincoln University students have been isolated after an outbreak of gastroenteritis on the eve of exams.
Manager of accommodation services Joan Paterson said 15 students had all been moved to the same hostel block so the illness was not passed on.
She said none of the students were too ill they could not sit their exams, but if any of them did get worse, they could be given an aggregate pass.
Five of the affected students would sit their exams in an isolated room today, Ms Paterson said.
Six hundred students will be on the campus, near Christchurch, today at the start of two weeks of examinations.
Lincoln vice-chancellor Professor Roger Field said last night the university had requested that ill students or staff stay home.
- NZPA
