MU modifies white light setting, respirators won’t be compulsory
MU is modifying the rules in the white traffic-light system based on new government measures. The new rules will be effective as of Monday, 14 March.
Information for final-year students attending practical classes
Please follow the information provided by your faculties closely. The Czech Government has decided to permit the physical presence of final-year students in practical, laboratory, experimental and art classes and student placements effective from 26 April 2021.
This does not concern final-year students of the Faculty of Social Studies, Faculty of Economics and Administration, Faculty of Law and Faculty of Informatics. These faculties will continue with online classes as before.
In the event a faculty opens some form of face-to-face classes in a certain study programme, students will have to get tested for Covid-19 in order to attend. Further details on testing will be provided on an ongoing basis.
Attending face-to-face classes by students is conditional on mandatory testing for COVID-19. The results of the test must be uploaded into the MU Information System. The test result remains valid for 7 days. Students are required to take the test every 7 days.
Students can take the test:
- At the MU testing point (Brno Exhibition Centre) – the test result must not be older than two days before the start of teaching. The result of the test must be uploaded into IS. To register for a test, students use an application in the Information System (COVID-19 test reservation).
- At any other testing point operated by a health services provider; the test result must not be older than two days before the start of teaching. The test result must be uploaded into IS.
- Using a self-administrated test. The test for COVID-19 must be performed on the day of the first return at the class - the student will take a photo of the test result and upload it to the IS.
MU testing point:
- is located at the Brno Exhibition Centre: use entrance for pedestrians, gate 1, tram stop “Výstaviště – hlavní vstup (Výstaviště – main entrance)”.
- Testing at MU testing point at Brno Exhibition Centre will be possible on Saturday 24 April and Sunday 25 April, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- In the following days, there are time slosts reseved for MU students on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 8 a.m. to 12 noon
- Students must have an insucarnce card. Testing will be possible from Saturday 24 April.
- The student will receive the test results via SMS within 60 minutes to a Czech or Slovak telephone number. A printed confirmation is not issued.
The following students will be exempt from mandatory testing:
• students who have recovered from laboratory-confirmed Covid-19 infection in the past 90 days;
• student who have received full vaccination course against Covid-19 and received the last vaccine dose at least 14 days ago;
• students who have a negative result from a POC test for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 virus antigen or from an RT-PCR test for SARS-CoV-2 not older than 48 hours.
The same conditions for mandatory testing also apply to arrival and stay in dormitories. If a student uses self-administrated tests, he must be tested in the dormitories.