Due to changing public health advice, UBC is no longer providing PCR tests to individuals who test positive through the rapid testing program.
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On Wednesday evening, AMS Council met for the first time in 2022, returning to a virtual format amid the spread of the Omicron variant.
So what exactly is changing? Here’s a brief picture of what campus will look like for the next four weeks.
The sender called Bhangu misogynistic slurs several times and blamed her for UBC’s extension of online classes from January 24 to February 7.
The UBC community health area has begun 2022 by recording its highest rate of COVID-19 test positivity since the BCCDC began releasing this data.
In a UBC Broadcast posted earlier this morning, President Santa Ono told students they should plan to be on campus in early February.
The site, which distributes rapid tests, closed because of a staffing issue, Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) wrote on its Instagram account earlier today.
At least five Master of Management Dual Degree students tested positive for COVID-19 following a series of in-person program events held during the last full-week of finals.
President Santa Ono announced the change in a broadcast email sent out to students today. Classes will return to in-person instruction on January 24, just two weeks after the beginning of the term.
In the statement, the sociology professors wrote that they stood opposed to actions of the federal government, the BC government and the RMCP that violate the sovereignty and rights of the Wet’suwet’en people.
The AMS hosted a press conference to protest in-person exams and urged the university to move exams online for student safety. The university insists exam halls are safe.
The two machines will be located in the Sauder School of Business’s Henry Angus Building and in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
The faculty of science recently appointed three new associate deans, renewing concerns around the lack of a Board of Governors policy to appoint associate deans.
President Santa Ono announced that UBC will be expanding its COVID-19 testing and reaffirmed that exams will continue in person in an update earlier this afternoon.
In an email sent on Friday, December 10, department head Stephen Heatley apologized to students.