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.
Ministry of Education to allow in-class teaching for final-year students in practical classes within weeks, with mandatory testing
According to information from the Government of the Czech Republic and instructions from the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, university students in their final year of study will be allowed to return to school to practical classes within weeks. This will affect active students of bachelor’s programmes enrolled in at least their fifth semester, students of follow-up master’s programmes enrolled in at least their third semester, and students of master’s programmes enrolled in at least their ninth semester. The dean of each faculty will make the final decision about which programmes and study fields will open for in-person teaching. For students to return, they must be regularly tested.
Students have two options. They may get an RT-PCR test or a POC antigen test on their own and upload the results into IS. Or they can go to the Brno Exhibition Centre, where MU in cooperation with the non-profit organization Helping Hands (Podané ruce), is performing tests. For now, MU students will be able to come on Mondays, Wednesdays, or Fridays, between 8 am and 12 pm. Students will have to register for a test using a system that will be available in the Information System (IS; COVID-19 reservation). Testing will begin several days before in-class teaching starts. Tests may not be more than seven day old.
Certain people are exempt from testing: those who have been diagnosed with COVID-19 based on laboratory testing whose self-isolation period established by the Ministry of Health has already passed and who have no symptoms of COVID-19 and who first tested positive for COVID-19 on RT-PCR tests or POC antigen tests fewer than 90 days ago.