The University’s crisis management team points out that next week, vaccinations will be offered to Leipzig University staff who are at an increased risk due to in-person teaching duties or other activities involving contact with many different people.
After passing through the Bundestag, the amendment to Germany’s Protection Against Infection Act (IfSG) has now been approved by the Bundesrat and signed by the Federal President. The amended legislation treats higher education institutions the same way as schools – no in-person teaching is allowed…
The University’s crisis management team has decided that the University Library reading rooms can reopen for staff and students if the coronavirus incidence rate drops below 100 (for seven days, based on RKI figures for the city of Leipzig).
According to the Saxon Regulation for Protection Against Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 (SächsCoronaSchVO), employers are obliged to offer weekly self-testing to employees working on site. The Free State of Saxony supplied the University with the necessary rapid test kits at the end of March.…