To all students, faculty, and staff

If a positive diagnosis for COVID-19 has been confirmed or if there is concern that one will be confirmed, campus entry possibility is stipulated as follows.

Please take appropriate action according to your situation in order to prevent the spread of infection.

* Please take your body temperature at home before commuting to school or work.

If your temperature is 37.5℃ or higher, you will not be allowed to enter campus.

In principle, your body temperature will be taken when entering the campus at a temperature checkpoint.

Temperature check stations have been set up at multiple buildings on campus, so please take your temperature as needed on your own.

Furthermore, taking into account the societal circumstances concerning COVID-19, there may be some restrictions on campus entrance and reception hours. Information is posted as the situation requires on “University's Countermeasures against the Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19)”, so please check it from time to time.

1. If a PCR test confirms a positive diagnosis

You cannot enter the university campus.

2. If there is a risk of infection

Anyone who falls under any of the following conditions shall be deemed "at risk of COVID-19 infection" and cannot enter the university campus. Monitor your health, mainly by taking your temperature twice daily (morning and evening).

*Students/faculty and staff who have entered the country or returned from abroad should check "Entering the Country and Returning from Overseas.”

(1) Status of students/faculty and staff

[1] Identified as a close contact by a healthcare center

➡ You cannot enter the university campus until the 14th day after the date of your last contact with the person who tested positive, with the day following contact considered the first day.

*Directions of a healthcare center will be followed if you have received a negative PCR test result and the healthcare center as instructed a home quarantine period.

[2] Has cold symptoms such as fever or abnormal sense of taste or smell

➡ You cannot enter the university campus until it can be confirmed that these symptoms disappeared within three days after onset and that fever, cough, phlegm, diarrhea, general malaise, and abnormalities in sense of taste or smell have been absent without the use of any medication for more than 48 hours.

If these symptoms persist for four or more days, refer to the section on “Guidelines for Consultation RegardingNovel Coronavirus Infection” and consult a returnee/close contact center.

[3] Was “suspected positive” (*) in a test such as a monitoring test or test at a private PCR testing center

➡ Follow the instructions of the testing institution. You cannot enter the university campus until you visit a medical institution and are confirmed not infected.

* Different phrasing may be used depending on testing institutions.

[4] A COVID-19 contact-confirming app such as COCOA confirmed close contact with someone who tested positive

➡ Respond by following the instructions indicated in the app. After that, you cannot enter the university campus until a healthcare center confirms that there is no problem.

Reference: “Q&A for Contact-Confirming Application Users” (Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare website)

https://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/seisakunitsuite/bunya/kenkou_iryou/covid19_qa_kanrenkigyou_00009.html

(2) Status of people living together, such as family

[1] If a positive diagnosis is confirmed

➡ Students/faculty and staff cannot enter the university campus until the 14th day after the date of their last contact with the person living with them, with the day following contact considered the first day.

* Directions of a healthcare center will be followed if you have received a negative PCR test result and the healthcare center has instructed a home quarantine period.

If the person living with you is recuperating at home, directions of a healthcare center will be followed regarding the home quarantine period.

[2] Identified as a close contact by a healthcare center

➡ If a family member or person living with you is identified as a close contact by a healthcare center, we request you (student or faculty) follow the directions of a healthcare center regarding home quarantine.

If you do not fall under any of the above categories, in principle you can enter the university campus.

In addition, if it is found that there is a risk of infection during activities on campus, such as if notification is received from a public health center that someone is a close contact, said person should leave the premises immediately.

3. If you have a fever of 37.5 ° C or higher after vaccination (updated June 21, 2021)

If you have a fever after vaccination, you cannot enter the university campus until the fever disappears.

* If you have any of the following symptoms other than fever, contact a public health center or medical institution that has vaccinated you and follow the instructions.

・ Cough and sore throat

・ Abnormalities in sense of taste or smell

・ Shortness of breath, etc.

See here for the policy on campus entry possibility regarding COVID-19. (updated June 21, 2021)