UMBC CAMPUS HEALTH AWARENESS

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Coronavirus 2019
(COVID-19)

UMBC is committed to keeping our community safe, healthy, and informed. Please check this page for updated information on COVID-19 (formerly known as the 2019-nCoV coronavirus). Please call University Health Services (UHS) at 410-455-2542 if you need medical assistance or have questions/concerns.

UMBC Status and Travel Information

Background

Campus Communications

What UMBC is Doing

Information for People Who Have Recently Traveled to China

Information for People with Underlying Health Conditions or Who Take Medicines that Suppress Their Immune System

Prevention Steps

USM Chancellor Letter

UMBC Status

There are no confirmed cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Maryland or within the UMBC community reported by the State of Maryland or the Baltimore County Health Department. If this situation changes, we will share the latest updates on this page. UHS is in contact with the Baltimore County Health Department regarding responding to the threat and will continue to consult when the need arises.

Travel Information

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued new travel guidance and UMBC is updating its recommendations accordingly. The CDC identifies three levels of travel advisories: Warning Level 3 (avoid all non-essential travel); Alert Level 2 (practice enhanced precautions); and Watch Level 1 (practice usual precautions).

There are currently four countries with Warning Level 3 advisories for COVID-19: China, South Korea, Italy, and Iran. Due to these elevated advisories, UMBC students are not permitted to travel to these countries on university business at this time. We also strongly discourage faculty and staff business travel to these countries while the elevated advisories are in effect.

UMBC will suspend student travel to any other country that is elevated to a Warning Level 3 advisory by the CDC. We are closely monitoring the situation in Japan (Level 2) and students studying abroad in countries with an Alert Level 2 should be prepared to return to the U.S. should circumstances change.

Decisions to suspend a program and instructions on next steps will be communicated directly to impacted students and their designated emergency contacts. Students planning to travel abroad in the summer or fall will also receive further communication from the Office of International Education Services. Faculty and staff members with questions about international travel should contact David Di Maria, Associate Vice Provost for International Education, at 410-455-2624 or dimaria@umbc.edu.

For more information on the COVID-19 please visit UHS website