Information about Corona pandemic

Students and staff (teaching staff, lecturers, guest lecturers and employees) at the University of Erfurt. Persons who:

• had contact with a sick person
• who are staying abroad, but who cannot return to Germany due to safety regulations in the sense of the quarantine measure
• are themselves ill (with unspecific general symptoms or respiratory problems)
• are in quarantine;

please report immediately by telephone or e-mail to your superior and in Department 2: Personnel at e-mail: personal@uni-erfurt.de (employees) or in Department 1: Studies and Teaching at e-mail: studierendenangelegenheiten@uni-erfurt.de (students). Together with you, the colleagues will then discuss the further procedure, such as the possibility of teleworking.

The Office for Equal Opportunities and Family Affairs has compiled all the important information for you on its website and is also available for further questions and advice.

>> see also the "Family at the university" website

The University of Erfurt has set up a crisis team. It continuously assesses the very rapidly changing situation regarding the spread of the coronavirus (Covid-19) and makes recommendations to the Presidential Board regarding suitable protective measures. The crisis team follows the recommendations of the Robert Koch Institute in its assessment and is in close contact with the Student services organisation (Studierendenwerk), the city of Erfurt, the Thuringian Ministry of Economics, Science and Digital Society and the other Thuringian universities.

At the beginning of the pandemic, the crisis management team developed a catalogue of measures, the implementation of which is intended to protect the health of employees, students and other people. These measures include temporarily suspending campus attendance, switching to digital teaching and learning formats, temporarily suspending business trips and making working hours more flexible. In addition, a protection concept has been drawn up which will be updated as necessary. The current version can be found here.

Persons who have had contact with a person infected with the coronavirus should test themselves closely, observe the cough and sneeze etiquette and the rules on distance and hand hygiene, and avoid unnecessary contact for the time being.

In the event of acute respiratory symptoms or a positive self-test result, you should take a test at an official testing centre and, if the result is positive, please contact your supervisor immediately by telephone or e-mail, as well as the Department 2: Human Resources at e-mail: personal@uni-erfurt.de (employees) or the Department 1: Studies and Teaching at e-mail: In addition, please contact your supervisor immediately by telephone or e-mail and in Department 2: Human Ressources at email: personal@uni-erfurt.de (employees) or in Department 1: Registrar‘s Office at email: studierendenangelegenheiten@uni-erfurt.de (students). Your colleagues will then discuss the next steps with you, e.g. the possibility of teleworking or mobile working.

With simple measures you can help to protect yourself and others from the corona virus:

• When coughing or sneezing, keep the greatest possible distance from other people - and it is best to turn away.
• Sneeze or cough into the crook of your arm or into a handkerchief - and then dispose of the handkerchief in a bin with a lid.
• Washing hands regularly and thoroughly with soap and water for at least 20 seconds is considered a sufficient hygiene measure. In particular, this hygiene measure must be taken after blowing the nose, sneezing or coughing. 

A brochure from the Federal Centre for Health Education provides further tips. (only available in german)

The Robert Koch Institute has published an orientation guide on this.