YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY

If you are diagnosed with COVID-19

 

Revised December 28, 2022

Main changes
  • The “Infectious Disease Report Form” is newly required to be filled out.
  • The “Health Observation Report Form” and “Behavioral record & List of people whom you were in close contact with” were discontinued.

 

　If you are diagnosed with a COVID-19 infection, you shall report it immediately to Yamaguchi University via the “Infectious Disease Report Form.”

Infectious Disease Report Form [For Students]

Infectious Disease Report Form [For Faculty and Staff]

 

Guideline for home medical treatment period

　Please refer to the following for the necessary period and recuperate at the indicated place. If the following period of recuperation is fulfilled, you may return class/work. If you have any concerns about returning to class/work, please contact the Health Administration Center. (Excluding nighttime, weekends, and holidays)

1) Symptomatic patients

1-1) If 7 days have passed since the onset of symptoms and 24 hours have elapsed since the onset of symptoms is improved/ get mild, you may return to class/work from the 8th day.
1-2）If you are hospitalized at the end of the 7th day from the date of onset of symptoms, you may return to class/work on the 11th day under the following conditions; 10 days have passed from the date of onset of symptoms and 72 hours have passed since the symptoms are improving/ get mild. (This applies to cases that you are hospitalized at 7 days has passed even if you were recuperating at home when the test was positive.)

2) Asymptomatic persons

2-1) If 7 days have passed since the date of positive test result, you may return class/work on the 8th day.
2-2) If a negative result is confirmed by a diagnostic test kit on the 5th day, you may return to class/work on the 6th day (submission of a negative result is required).

3) However, even if the home treatment period is lifted meeting the criteria of  1) or 2) above, in consideration of the risk of infection, you must refrain from participating in (1) “practical training at off-campus facilities” and (2) “extracurricular activities involving expeditions or training camps” during the following periods.

3-1) Symptomatic patients: Until 10 days have passed since the onset of symptoms and 72 hours have passed since the symptoms is improving/ get mild.
3-2) Asymptomatic patients: Until 7 days have passes since the date of positive test results.

 

Health Observation

　Please download the ” Health Observation Report Form ” and record your physical condition and temperature, etc. (please continue until the stay-at-home quarantine is lifted)
* If your symptoms get worse, please contact the health consultation desk of the “Follow-up Center for Home Recuperation” where you registered.

 

What to do if you have contacted with a close contact person

　If you have any close contacts (based on the following criteria) on your behavioral history from 2 days before the onset to 5 days after the onset, you shall fill in the information accurately on the “Infectious Disease Report Form” and inform the close contact person of Yamaguchi University’s “If you are a close contact (handling of close contacts, guidelines for stay home period)”.

(Criteria for Determination of Close Contacts) (One or more of the following (1) to (4) applies)

(1) Contact at a distance of about 1 m without a non-woven mask each other for 15 minutes or more.
(2) Long term contact (30 minutes or more) with a COVID-19-infected person while living together or in a car, etc.
(3) Examining, nursing, or caring for a COVID-19-infected person without appropriate infection protection (non-woven mask + goggles or face shield)
(4) High possibility of direct contact with contaminants such as airway secretions or body fluids of a COVID-19-infected person.