If you are an AU employee with symptoms of COVID-19, stay home until you are well. Stay home even if your symptoms are mild. If you get sick with COVID-19, stay home until you have been symptom-free for 48 hours. If you start having COVID-19 symptoms at work, go home as quickly as possible. Stay home until you have been symptom-free for 48 hours, or until you test negative for the virus.
If you test positive for the COVID-19 virus, we encourage you to tell your manager immediately so that any close contacts at AU can be notified. Your manager will help you clarify which colleagues and students you have been in contact with.
When someone is infected with the COVID-19 virus, preventive measures must be taken quickly and effectively in collaboration with government agencies and institutions to prevent the spread of infection. This includes identification of the people an infected person has been in close contact with. In general, this will include people the infected person lives with, some colleagues at work and possibly friends and family. Contact tracing and prevention are coordinated by the Danish Patient Safety Authority in collaboration with the affected person/employee and the workplace/AU. AU encourages everyone to download the national contact tracing app ’smitte|stop’.
In connection with contact tracing, AU’s role is to assist both infected employees and the Danish Patient Safety Authority in determining whether there are colleagues and students who are close contacts.
In the Danish Health Authority’s guidelines, a close contact is defined as:
notifying Lea Sofie Staunsager, administrative officer at the Rector's Office, lss@au.dk, and Sys Christina Vestergaard, head of press and communication, scv@au.dk, about the case of infection. Please specify at which department/school/administrative unit the case of infection has occurred and whether colleagues/students are characterised at ‘close contacts’. It must not be possible to link the information about the infected person to a specific individual, and if there are less than 10 people in the unit, the name of the unit should not be specified.