December Coronavirus Rules

Friday, December 03, 2021

New, modified coronavirus protocols were released by UCLA at the beginning of this month.

From the Bruin: UCLA released new guidelines with restrictions for on-campus events and departmental social gatherings, according to a campuswide email Wednesday. The announcement came after scientists in South Africa detected the highly transmissible omicron COVID-19 virus variant, which the World Health Organization designated a variant of concern on Nov. 26. On Wednesday, UC San Francisco researchers identified a case of COVID-19 in California caused by the omicron variant, the first confirmed case in the U.S. Preliminary research shows that the variant may only produce mild illness, according to a UCLA announcement Tuesday.

The updated protocols highly encourage virtual events, as new cases of COVID-19 remain high and the new strains of the virus continue to emerge, including the omicron variant, said Michael J. Beck and Megan McEvoy, co-chairs of the COVID-19 Response and Recovery Task Force, in the emailed announcement...

Full story at https://dailybruin.com/2021/12/01/ucla-announces-guidelines-for-campusgatherings-amid-concern-for-omnicron-variant.

Below are the official rules as of December 1:

Source: https://ucla.app.box.com/s/ldwgbdtwohcwbmbrk2gzdmb478od5566.