Dear Colleagues, I hope all is well with you. I have an unusually short email update this time 🙂 The Association has received some questions about the campus vaccination numbers that were shared last week, and I wanted to give you a reassuring update we have received about these numbers.  The university has told us that 95.6​% of students declaring and 97.3% of employees declaring have indicated they are fully vaccinated. Another 3% of students and 1.1​% of employees are partially vaccinated.  The university has done further investigation into the…

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Dear Colleagues, I’m sure most of you have seen President Hall’s statement early this evening about the fact that an agreement was reached “with the Ministry of Advanced Education, Skills and Training, the Provincial Health Office (PHO) and our partners at BC’s research universities to implement a program of rapid testing and vaccine status self-declaration for the fall.” https://www.uvic.ca/news/topics/notices/2021+notice-president-statement-covid-testing+notice?fbclid=IwAR0Eirvag2FpPr5bgDI9Qb40grVtzSFIxD37n5y4-8eRtik52pp7CGy5E3E As you are aware, the Faculty Association has been advocating for some time for a program that requires either vaccination or the alternative…

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Dear Colleagues, We ​have received many questions from you about current COVID issues and have now received a number of responses from the administration on these matters that I’m pleased to share with you. Rapid testing The rapid testing site on campus (at the back of the Continuing Studies building) is currently in operation. Those who have not self declared through the Thrive app, or who have declared that they are not vaccinated or that they are only partially vaccinated, are required to…

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