UBC COVID

• UBC researchers say nasal spray could be the newest defense against COVID-19

  A nasal spray mechanism was found to be the most effective way to administer N-0385, Dr. François Jean said, as the virus tends to enter through the nasal passage.

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  Mar 29, 2022
  
• UBC says in-person exams to go ahead, amid student pressure to cancel due to COVID-19

  UBC student leaders are ratcheting up pressure on the university to cancel in-person exams amid surging B.C. COVID-19 case numbers and the spread of the Omicron variant.

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  Dec 19, 2021
  
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• UBC student says dozens contracted COVID-19 after indoor frat party

  University RCMP officers shut down a party at the fraternity village on Wesbrook Mall on Aug. 29 after they found students gathering in the courtyard and inside several homes.

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  Sep 7, 2021
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• UBC student union calls for mandatory masks in classrooms, vaccines in residences

  "Students just don't want to be sitting in 200 to 300 person lecture halls side by side without masks. Quite frankly, faculty don't feel safe teaching in them either."

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  Jul 25, 2021
• Head of UBC school of public health apologizes for Hawaiian trip during COVID-19

  "I recognize now that I should not have travelled, and that many of you have made sacrifices over these past several weeks that I too should have made," said Dr. Peter Berman.

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  Jan 6, 2021
• UBC, SFU, UVic moving to online instruction amid coronavirus crisis

  The moves come after the B.C. government on Thursday directed the cancellation of any gatherings larger than 250 people in an effort to “flatten the curve” of new coronavirus infections.

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  Mar 13, 2020