Staying COVID safe on campus
Tuesday, 26 July 2022
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Professor Arshad Omari, Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor
Welcome back on campus for Semester 2! We are delighted to see everyone returning to campus this week.
As you will probably have heard on the news, there are new COVID-19 variants spreading in the community that make the chance of reinfection more likely.
This news marks an important reminder to each of us that this pandemic is not yet over and that we need to continue to observe key COVID-safe practices.
ECU's priority is to ensure continuity of our student experience, and of teaching, learning, research, and operations, so that you can attend campus safely and with confidence.
The following guidelines are provided to support a COVID-safe environment for us all:
- Please consider wearing a mask in settings where we are not able to maintain physical distancing, or when we are with vulnerable people.
- Keep up good hygiene habits such as washing and sanitising your hands regularly.
- Ensure your flu and COVID-19 vaccinations are up to date. A fourth dose of the COVID-19 vaccine is encouraged for everyone (aged 30 years and2 over). Anyone who has already had COVID-19 should wait 3 months before getting the next dose.
- Stay home and test for COVID-19 if you are unwell. If you have already had COVID-19 you should test again if you have symptoms, or once its been more than 28 days since you recovered.
Free RATs
Free RATs are available at each campus at a range of locations including the Student Health Centres, Library and Student Hub.
Notify ECU if you test positive
It is really important to keep everyone safe that you notify ECU if you test positive to COVID-19 or if you have been confirmed as a close contact who needs to isolate.
What to do if you are a close contact
A close contact is defined as:
- a household member or intimate partner of a person with COVID-19, who has had contact with them during their infectious period.
- someone who has had close personal interaction with a person with COVID-19 during their infectious period, where they spent 4 hours of cumulative contact with them in a residential setting in any 24-hour period, where masks have been removed by both people during the period of contact.
- someone who is informed by WA Health that they are a close contact.
If you are a close contact and don't have symptoms, you still need to:
- test negative on a RAT each day to be able to leave isolation
- wear a mask at all times when not at home.
Close contacts with symptoms should isolate until symptoms resolve.
Thank you all so much for the continuing support and understanding you are all showing for each other its these efforts that will keep us safer as a community.
Best wishes for success in your studies this semester.
Sincerely,
Professor Arshad Omari
Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor