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Important information on the current Containment Ordinance

Following the decisions of the conference of the Federal Chancellor with the heads of government of the federal states last Wednesday, the federal state of Brandenburg published the "Seventh Ordinance on Temporary Containment Measures due to the SARS-CoV-2 Virus and COVID-19 in Brandenburg" at the weekend, which comes into force from 08.03.2021, and is valid until 28.3.2021.

Key Guidelines

• Basically, it remains essential that we all adhere to the applicable distance and hygiene rules.
• Distance and hygiene rules

Distance - at least 1.5 m, also outside the buildings
Hygiene rules - wash hands regularly with soap for at least 20 seconds and follow cough and sneeze etiquette
Mask - wear a medical mask when on campus. This can be a surgical or FFP2 mask.
Ventilate - regularly ventilate all type of room as best you can: offices, seminar rooms, lecture theatres etc.
App - install the federal government's Corona warning app on a voluntary basis. It enables contact tracing and thereby to break contact chains.

• Hygiene concept

You can find the current version here or via www.en.th-wildau.de/corona

• Web app for contact tracing for all events / exams at the TH Wildau: Each time you enter a new room, please scan its QR code and use it to log in to the app. This is mandatory to be able to trace contacts in case of infection. The same applies in administrative areas and your own offices. Further information: https://en.th-wildau.de/contact-tracing

In addition, further currently applicable regulations are summarised once again below.

Courses

According to the current Containment Ordinance, face-to-face courses in higher education institutions are still only permitted with up to five participants at a time.

However, courses with a high practical component (laboratory exercises) and examinations are exempt from this regulation.

That means:

• All "classic" courses (e.g. lectures) are conducted exclusively online.
• Labs and other exercises with a high practical content can take place on site, subject to the applicable safety measures.
• Examinations and, in particular, repeat examinations may also be carried out on site in compliance with the applicable safety measures.

Library

• ·The library remains open under the previously valid safety measures.

Home Office

• In addition to the email from the Chancellor dated 9.2.2021 (“General ruling TH Wildau on the new SARS-CoV-2 occupational health and safety regulation”), the period of validity for existing home office agreements is extended beyond 15.3.2021 to 30.4.2021.
• Existing agreements do not require a separate written form.
• For new home office agreements, please continue to use the home office agreement template available on the website at www.en.th-wildau.de/corona

This means that on 15.3.2021 we can at least start with some particularly practice-oriented courses in attendance form, and we very much hope to be able to continue to organise the summer semester in this hybrid form that we are already familiar with. Which course will take place in which form and at which location can be found in the current timetable.

Nevertheless, we are currently in a very critical phase of the pandemic, which continues to make great demands on all of us and forces us to apply all hygiene and distance rules with special attentiveness. Please keep this in mind at all times!

With this in mind, we wish you a good and healthy start to your teaching!

Crisis team TH Wildau

More information: en.th-wildau.de/corona