This year's Orientation Week at Otago University is like no other, with hundreds of students stuck isolating due to Covid.
The southern city recorded its first community case of the latest outbreak two weeks ago with two student flat parties pinged as the first locations of interest.
Now there are nearly 600 in the Southern DHB area.
Students say the reality of isolation and Omicron is kicking in, with partying put on the backburner.
Tess Brunton reports.
