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5 Steps to Stay Safe

Steps to help you stay safe: keep your distance; wash your hands; wear a face covering; symptoms? Get a test; contacted by track and trace? Stay at home.

Face Coverings

Staff, students, visitors, contractors, and members of the public, unless exempt, are required to have face coverings readily available and wear them across all University and college buildings. Ensure you are familiar with the full policy.

Please wear a face covering. Not everyone can wear one, please be considerate.

Using a face covering? It should cover your mouth, nose and chin. Remove a face covering by holding only the ear loops. Once removed, store in a plastic bag and wash your reusable face coverings regularly.

Face coverings are not a substitute for social distancing at 2m, which remains a key feature of the protective hygiene and safety measures.

Keep the space of approx. 1 sofa (2m apart) free. Please keep a safe distance apart.

Testing for COVID-19: Early Alert Service (EAS)

The EAS is open for all staff of the University and Colleges holding a University Card if they have symptoms associated with COVID-19 (minor or major). Online booking (plus FAQs) is live for the first central testing site.

Have one or more of these symptoms? High temperature (over 37.8 degrees, or you feel hot to touch on your chest and back); New continuous cough (coughing a lot for over an hour, or 3 or more coughing episodes in 24 hours, or existing cough has become worse); loss of smell or taste (you cannot smell or taste the difference between foods, or things taste different to normal). Or are you feeling unwell or worried you may be at risk? Stay home, book a test online, get results in 24 hours. Find out more at www.ox.ac.uk/covid-testing.

The full list of symptoms can be accessed on the NHS page Check if you or your child has coronavirus symptoms.

Oxford University's Instructional video

More details available at www.ox.ac.uk/covid-health

Studying, researching, working and living in Oxford in the 2020–21 academic year

The complete University of Oxford COVID-19 pages cover more health and wellbeing, University status updates, staff guides, information for current students, offer holders and prospective students, advice for the local community, and the details of ongoing COVID-19 research and work on the vaccine.

See the full Oxford COVID-19 Response