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Coronavirus (COVID-19)

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For general information or specific information related to cases, vaccines, testing, and reporting exposures contact covid19@ucr.edu or submit a concern.
 

Our website will soon be updated with new and important information regarding the 2024-2025 COVID-19 and Influenza vaccine yearly attestation and declination process.

Please ensure you revisit in the coming days, as we will be announcing the updates as they become available.

We appreciate your continued support and look forward to sharing these updates with you soon. 

COVID-19 Protocols at a Glance

COVID-19 PROTOCOLS 

The chart below applies to:

  • Students: Those living, learning, or working on campus at a UCR property at least one day a week.
  • Employees: Staff, faculty, instructors, or third-party personnel working or teaching on campus or at a UCR property at least one day a week.
  • Visitors and Guests: Members of the general public visiting campus or UCR facilities or attending events on campus; guests invited to campus for events or meetings.

For more information on each protocol, click the link in the left-hand column.

Protocol 

Employees

Students

Guests & Visitors

Vaccinations

New Policy: Confirm you are up to date or opt-out via the employee patient portal

New policy: Confirm you are up to date or opt-out via the student patient portal

Not required.

Face masks Recommended indoors.

Optional Outdoors.
Recommended indoors.

Optional Outdoors.
Recommended indoors.

Optional Outdoors.
COVID-19 Testing Not required (but still available). Not required (but still available). Not required.
COVID-19 Reporting Report to COVID-19 Screening Check. Report to student patient portal. Not required.

Isolation
(following positive test)

Positive COVID-19 test and symptomatic: follow isolation guidelines.

Positive COVID-19 test and symptomatic: follow isolation guidelines.

Follow California Department of Public Health guidance.
Quarantine
(following exposure)
Not required if asymptomatic. Not required if asymptomatic. Follow California Department of Public Health guidance.
Campus Outbreak(s) Exposed group: follow Notice of Workplace COVID-19 Outbreak that will include testing and masking. Not required. Not required.

Note: Those who work in UCR Health clinic areas (including medical, dental, and nursing clinics) must follow COVID-19 protocols for healthcare settings.

However, those who work in both clinical and non-clinical settings must also comply with these campus protocols when outside of the health care environment.