In case you are positive or have been in close contact with one and have compatible symptoms, you should act as follows:

1. Send an email from your UPF mailbox to the mailbox of the secretary of your studies, or do a CAU. In the case of international students, the message should be sent to the Mobility and Reception Office ([email protected]). In either case, the following details must be included: 

• Subject: “Notification of confirmed case” or “Notification of confirmed case of reinfection” or “Notification of suspected case” or “Notification of suspected case of reinfection” or “Notification of close contact with a confirmed case”, as appropriate.
• Body of the message: 

a. Name(s) and surname(s). 

b. Body: undergraduate student (indicate studies), graduate student (indicate studies), as appropriate. 

c. Date on which the person became aware of the situation or was diagnosed. This message must be sent with a copy to the mailbox of the Office for the Prevention of Occupational Hazards and Health Promotion ([email protected]), from which you will receive relevant information for isolating or quarantining. 

d. Type of situation: confirmed case, confirmed case of reinfection, suspected case, suspected case of reinfection or close contact with a case, as appropriate. 

2. Notify your close contacts, whether from UPF or from outside the University. 

Close contact: person who has been in the same place as a suspected or confirmed case of covid-19 at a distance of less than two metres for a cumulative time of more than fifteen minutes over a twenty-four hour period without having worn a mask, covering the nose and mouth, and from the two days prior to the onset of symptoms, or the taking of samples for diagnosis in asymptomatic cases.  

3. Send an email to the teaching staff of the subjects you are currently taking, to inform them of your situation of forced absence as you are considered a confirmed case, a suspicious case or a close contact of a case, and confirm that you have already informed the secretary’s office of your studies. 

4. Students who are doing external academic internships must send an email to their internship tutor of the academic or administrative unit or of the host collaborating entity and to the internship tutor at UPF. 

5. Send an email to the UPF Inclusió programme mailbox ([email protected]), when the severity of the symptoms or the evolution of the disease cause difficulties, academically speaking, to duly follow the subjects. 

The secretary of your studies, or the management and administration unit, or the Office of Mobility and Reception, in the case of international students, will reply to the student via an email that will give them access to the Google form to make a responsible statement of being a confirmed or suspected case of covid-19 and of close contacts, kept by the Office for the Prevention of Occupational Hazards and Health Promotion.

With these data, the Office for the Prevention of Occupational Hazards and Health Promotion will make the declaration of cases, from the mailbox [email protected], to the Public Health Agency of Barcelona, to the Epidemiological Surveillance and Public Health Emergency Response Service of the health region of residence of the individual - if other than the city of Barcelona - and to the Occupational Health Action Coordination Service, of the General Subdirectorate for Health Promotion of the Public Health Secretariat.

Persons notifying, whether students or staff members, who report a situation of preventive isolation at home due to being a confirmed case but do not require temporary sick leave, or of quarantine due to being in close contact with a confirmed case, must also send the corresponding responsible statement (Documents 1 and 2, respectively) to the mailbox of the secretary’s office of their studies or to the mailbox of the corresponding Personnel Service, respectively.  

For further information and to report close contacts see instruction Reporting cases and close contacts and their monitoring –  validity review (Referènce: IO-S3-REPRESA/notificació/0503/2021)