DOWN FROM 61 IN EARLY FEBRUARY. LAKE, DURHAM, ORANGE AND JOHNSON COUNTIES ARE ALL ORANGE. >> LET'S KEEP THINGS GOING IN THAT DIRECTION. SCHOOL OFFICIALS AT DUKE SAY OFF-CAMPUS PARTIES ARE TO BLAME FOR COVID-19 CLUSTERS. THE UNIVERSITY REPORTED TODAY A CLUSTER OF SIX CASES AFTER A BIRTHDAY PARTY AT AN APARTMENT COMPLEX. THIS IS THE FOURTH CLUSTER DUKE HAS REPORTED THIS ACADEMIC YEAR. AARON THOMAS SPOKE WITH OFFICIALS AT DUKE TONIGHT AND JOINS US LIVE FROM DURHAM WITH THEIR PLANS TO CRACK DOWN ON PARTYING. ERIC AARON? >> Reporter: DUKE OFFICIALS TELL ME THAT THEY WILL BE HOLDING STUDENTS ACCOUNTABLE FOR VIOLATING ANY RULES. WE ARE HERE ON NINTH STREET INTERIM, A PLACE WERE BOTH STUDENTS AND NONSTUDENTS COME OUT, TO PICK UP GROCERIES OR EVEN GRAB A BITE. THIS IS ALSO THE SAME LOCATION WHERE COVID-19 CLUSTERS ARE BEING REPORTED AT OFF-CAMPUS APARTMENT COMPLEXES. RESIDENCES NOW WORRY FOR THEIR HEALTH. >> Reporter: JOHN VALERIO WORKS HERE AT DUKE UNIVERSITY. FEARING NEW COVID-19 CLUSTERS POPPING UP AT A NEARBY APARTMENT COMPLEX AND WORRYING FOR BOTH HIMSELF AND HIS MOTHER. >> TONIGHT, DUKE REPORTED A COVID-19 CLUSTER AT UP DEPARTMENTS IN DURHAM, SIX GRADUATE STUDENTS WERE INFECTED AFTER ATTENDING A BIRTHDAY PARTY. LAST NIGHT, WE TOLD YOU ABOUT A MASK OF GATHERING OF 50 PEOPLE IN ATTENDANCE AT ANOTHER OFF- CAMPUS LOCATION. FIVE STUDENTS BECAME ILL WITH COVID-19 AFTER A FIGURE HE ATE A BIRTHDAY PARTY, AND LAST MONTH, WRAL REPORTED FIVE CASES AT THE BERKSHIRE APARTMENTS NEAR CAMPUS. >> HOSTING AN EVENT IS CONSIDERED A FLAGRANT VIOLATION OF OUR COVID-19 PATIENTS. >> Reporter: MIKE MICHELLE WITH DUKE HEALTH TELLS US THE UNIVERSITY HAS A HIGH STANDARD AND THEY WANT TO KEEP IT THIS WAY. >> THE UNIVERSITY COMBATING SOME OF THESE LARGE GATHERINGS, AND WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENT US? >> WE TAKE THESE THINGS SERIOUSLY. WE WILL NOT HESITATE, AND HAVE NOT HESITATED, TO INSTITUTE PENALTIES WHEN NEEDED. >> Reporter: TEACHER GUERRA HINTON WANTS STUDENTS TO REALIZE THERE IS NO BUBBLE AROUND DUKE OR DURHAM. >> I WOULD ASK THEM TO CONSIDER THE SURROUNDING AREA AND COMMUNITY THEY ARE IN WHEN MAKING THESE DECISIONS. >> Reporter: DUKE OFFICIALS TELL ME THAT THE PAST WEEK, THE UNIVERSITY HAS REPORTED A TOTAL OF 11 POSITIVE TEST, OUT OF 10,000 STUDENTS. WE HAVE ALSO LEARNED THAT SIMILAR VIOLATIONS OF LARGE GATHERINGS HAVE ACTUALLY LED TO OTHER CONSEQUENCES, SUCH AS