{"id":156044,"date":"2021-09-15T16:08:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T16:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=156044"},"modified":"2021-09-16T11:37:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T11:37:03","slug":"iium-issues-latest-guidelines-for-returning-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=156044","title":{"rendered":"IIUM issues latest guidelines for returning students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Ariani Mohd Nor<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GOMBAK, 15\nSeptember 2021: Ahead of the new semester commencing on 4 October, IIUM has issued\nits official guidelines for its campus reopening and students return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nguidelines were developed in consideration of the rising vaccination rate in staffs\nand students, which are currently at 96 and 65 per cent respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Starting 15\nOctober, returning students and new students who are fully vaccinated (14 days\nafter the second dose of two-dose vaccines, 28 days after one-dose vaccines) are\ngranted access to campus in stages. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The schedule,\nwhich will be posted on the i-Maluum website, can be viewed beginning 20\nSeptember.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus, both\nundergraduate and postgraduate students who wish to return to campus should obtain\npermission from their respective Kulliyyahs, which will also be available on the\nsame date as mentioned above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before\nreturning, students are encouraged to undergo a COVID-19 self-test and they\nwill have to undergo a COVID-19 monitoring period upon their arrival which will\nbe coordinated by the Occupational, Safety, Health, and Built Environment Department\n(OSHBE).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As IIUM has\nthe right to deny any entrance to the campus, the guidelines also work as a\nreminder that those who are unvaccinated have not completed their doses will have\nto contact their Kulliyyahs for advice on getting their vaccinations completed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lastly, students and staff on campus are reminded to always practise social distancing and avoid activities that can risk contamination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those who experience COVID-19 symptoms or have had close contact with someone tested positive for COVID-19 and\/or a Person Under Investigation (PUI) will not be allowed on campus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Symptomatic students on campus must report their status to the IIUM Health and Wellness Clinic (IHWC) or other IIUM health facilities. The IHWC Gombak general line is 03-6421 4444.***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ariani Mohd Nor GOMBAK, 15 September 2021: Ahead of the new semester commencing on 4 October, IIUM has issued its official guidelines for its&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,3],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[12,134,136],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156044"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156101,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156044\/revisions\/156101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}