Coronavirus concerns have given students until the weekend to vacate.

Spring break is supposed to begin for Harvard students this coming Saturday, but the school doesn’t want its students to return after the holiday is over. According to an announcement made yesterday by Harvard President Lawrence Bacow, the campus will be closing at the end of the week for an unspecified period in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19, AKA the coronavirus.

“The goal of these changes is to minimize the need to gather in large groups and spend prolonged time in close proximity with each other in spaces such as classrooms, dining halls, and residential buildings,” Bacow’s message read.

Students have until the end of this week to completely pack up their dorms and vacate the premises. After spring break concludes on March 23, remote classes will be held to replace the regular ones. The campus will still technically be open, but large non-essential meetings will be heavily discouraged.

This sudden declaration has put many students in a difficult position; some lack the money and resources to pack and move all of their belongings, while others who live out of state or came to the school from a different country can’t return due to discouraged air travel or quarantined zones. Some students have begun a grassroots effort to find local housing for any students who cannot leave the area, working with local families and hotels to ensure everyone has a safe place to stay.

Both the students and the faculty are also concerned about keeping classes online for the rest of the school year. “There are a lot of classes that involve labs that you really can’t replicate online. The sports teams are all devastated,” Harvard sophomore James Casey told CBS Boston. “It’s more than just the classes. It’s a lot of different things kind of all just coming to an end right at once.”

Harvard professor Dr. Myra White is concerned about losing the human element of college classes. “When you have a really good class, you have a sense of what psychologists call ’emotional contagion,’ that we catch each other’s moods,” she said.

Massachusetts is currently in a state of emergency after 92 people tested positive for coronavirus.