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Prevention Guidelines For All Hostel-Resident Students

Student Hostels is a relatively crowded high risk area where students are generally less sensitive about infectious disease preventions. Please note that the hostels have more communal areas than at home and should therefore be treated just like any other classroom or indoor areas in campus. The following guidelines should be followed and will be enforced by the warden and your respective hostel committees:

Health Declaration

ALL newly admitted hostel-residents and ALL hostel-resident returning from trips outside of Hong Kong ARE REQUIRED to fill in a Health Declaration IMMEDIATELY upon checking in at the hostel. The health declaration is to report on the student’s own health conditions and recent travel history.

Checking of Body Temperature

New hostel-residents and those returning from overseas may decide if they want to check and record their body temperature. Any student who has a fever or is sick otherwise should seek medical assistance.
Methods to take oral temperature are shown on the Powerpoint File on Taking Body Temperature. Students should keep a record of the readings to be checked by hostel wardens. Thermometers can be obtained from the warden.

Hostel Precautions

PROTECT yourself and your fellow students
Follow the Good Hygiene Pracitces

Prevention of Infectious Diseases Regulations Chapter 141
The Government requires all Household/Close Contacts who has lived in the same room, cared for, or has direct contact with respiratory secretions and body fluids of a patient with a confirmed SARS patient to stay at home (not at hostels) for up to 10 days or move into designated holiday camps. This home confinement policy also includes household contacts of suspected SARS patients. (For hostel resident students who are required to stay at home, if are unable to do so, please consult your hostel warden or UHS for advice. )

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