Updated: 12th March 2020 - Measures Regarding Traveling Abroad and Receiving Foreigners
Missions to foreign countries – regardless of the destination – cannot be ordered or authorized, university citizens are advised to delay their private travels abroad and citizens of foreign countries are not allowed to reside on campus. According to the Government Decree, healthcare workers shall only be allowed to leave the territory of Hungary with the permission of the Minister responsible for the relevant sector.
Extraordinary legal order and a state of emergency has been announced for the whole territory of the country due to the coronavirus epidemic, announced Gergely Gulyás, Minister in charge of the Prime Minister's Office, while describing the decision of yesterday's government meeting.
Subject to the Government Decree on ‘measures to be taken during emergency, preventing and remedying the effects of a mass epidemic which endangers the safety of life and property, and of emergency measures to protect the health and life of Hungarian citizens’, to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus infection, all employees of the University of Szeged were informed of the following.
With regard to applicable Decree, healthcare workers (health care workers: physicians, dentists, pharmacists, others with advanced health care qualifications, those with vocational health care qualifications, or those without qualifications involved in delivering health services), shall only be allowed to leave the territory of Hungary with the permission of the Minister responsible for the relevant sector.
As regards all other employees and students of the University of Szeged, missions to foreign countries – regardless of the destination – cannot be ordered or authorized nor professional journeys to foreign countries.
We call the attention of all university citizens to refrain from or delay travelling abroad for private purposes if possible – for their personal safety and to maintain the smooth operation of the organizational units of the University of Szeged.
Visits by foreign delegations and foreign guests shall be cancelled or postponed, as they may be held after the end of the state of emergency.
Non-Hungarian citizens shall not enter or remain in the area of the University. If a visit by a foreign individual is indispensable for the basic activities of the University, this shall only be possible with special electronic permission granted by the Operative Committee on Coronavirus. Prior authorization from the Operative Committee on Coronavirus shall be requested at coronavirus.jelentes@rekt.szte.hu.
Latest resolutions and circulars:
8/2020. (III.12.) Circular of the Coronavirus Operative Committee
Useful links and other resolutions:
Resolution for rectorial break
Modification of the spring break by the Rector
5/2020. (III.11.) Circular of the Coronavirus Operative Committee
6/2020. (III.11.) Circular of the Coronavirus Operative Committee
7/2020. (III.11.) Circular of the Coronavirus Operative Committee
1/2020 (III.06.) Circular of the Coronavirus Operative Committee
2/2020 (III.09.) Circular of the Coronavirus Operative Committee
3/2020 (III.09.) Circular of the Coronavirus Operative Committee
4/2020. (III.11.) Circular of the Coronavirus Operative Committee
General procedure on coronavirus issued by the National Public Health Service of Hungary here.
Informative video on coronavirus of WHO here.
WHO advices on hand washing here.
Previously in this topic:
Further Measures Have Been Introduced Concerning the Coronavirus at the University of Szeged
UPDATE 10th March 2020: Most Important Measures Concerning the Coronavirus Disease
UPDATED 11th March 2020: Educational break at the University of Szeged
Updated on the 12th March 2020: Measures Imposed with Immediate Effect at the University of Szeged
Updated: 12th March 2020 – Measures Applying to Events at the University of Szeged