After norovirus outbreak, Harvard Faculty Club restaurant to remain closed during commencement
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The restaurant at the venerable Harvard Faculty Club, shuttered for weeks because of a norovirus outbreak that sickened more than 300 people, will remain closed through commencement, the height of the university’s social calendar.
The outbreak forced the club, a membership organization for current and former faculty, staff and students, to sanitize the entire facility and retrain employees. The club has reopened for private events, but the restaurant will not reopen until early next month.
The club initially closed in late March after an outbreak, and then reopened Easter Weekend. Two days after Easter, the club, located on Quincy Street in Cambridge, closed again because more people reported getting sick.
Friday, the Cambridge Health Department said an investigation found that before the club closed for the first time, 14 employees were working while they were sick and an undetermined number of employees were working less than 72 hours after they had become free of norovirus symptoms.
