General Information

• Cleanse your hands thoroughly and in the correct manner (For more information please see the tips of the World Health Organization on this website: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public)
• Avoid contact with people who are visibly ill, esp. those who seem to suffer from fever, a cough or breathing difficulties
• If you have the possibility, get vaccinated against influenza
• There are possibilities to disinfect your hands all over Bielefeld campus

If you experience symptoms such as a fever, breathing difficulties or a cough, please immediately inform a hospital or doctor in Bielefeld and consult them by telephone beforehand. Please remember to phone them first, since the hospital and doctors would like to avoid chances of the virus spreading in the waiting rooms.

If you need to reach someone outside of office hours or if your phone calls are not successful, please use the medical on-call service number: 116117
(see download box on the left side)

Hotlines of our hospitals are:

If you fear that you have been infected with the virus, please also

• Immediately inform the International Office of Bielefeld UAS by e-mail
• Avoid unnecessary contact with others
• Stay home as far as possible (voluntary quarantine to avoid public spaces and the buildings of Bielefeld UAS for at least 14 days)
• Keep your distance from others when coughing or sneezing, cover your mouth and nose with a flexed elbow or use a tissue that you can dispose of immediately
• Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth

Bielefeld UAS determines all further steps regarding measures against the Coronavirus in accordance with recommendations from the RKI (Robert Koch Institute).