How to handle symptoms and infection among employees

When someone is infected with Covid-19 (positive result from a PCR test), preventive measures must be taken quickly and effectively in collaboration with government agencies and institutions to prevent the spread of infection.

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 who should self-isolate and/or get tested.

See the Danish Health Authority's pamphlet on contact tracing and the procedures involved in connection with close contacts.

• help identify the colleagues and students an infected employee has been in close contact with at the university, together with the employee and the Danish Patient Safety Authority.
• inform colleagues and students who need to self-isolate and/or get tested. The employee’s immediate supervisor should inform the person(s) in question that someone they have been in contact with has tested positive (without stating their identity), and ask the colleague/student to follow the Danish Health Authority’s guidelines on tracing and handling close contacts.
• ensure that thorough cleaning of the infected employee’s work station and surrounding areas is be performed without delay.
• notify studenterstab@au.dk  of the case of Covid-19. The name of the department/administrative unit at which the case of Covid-19 has occurred should be included in the mail, along with any information about links to another case at AU. 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.
• notify other relevant colleagues that “an employee is on sick leave or has been sent home due to COVID-19, colleagues who are at risk of infection have been notified, and the workstation has been cleaned”. As a matter of principle, the specific health conditions of specific employees should not be named (pursuant to GDPR rules).