Why there are different mask rules for staff and students

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Vice-Rector for Talent Development: Study and Teaching, Professor Roger Gläser.
Vice-Rector for Talent Development: Study and Teaching, Professor Roger Gläser. Photo: Christian Hüller, Leipzig University

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The number of people infected with COVID-19 is rising sharply again. Now that autumn has arrived, the pandemic situation is expected to intensify once more. According to the current Hygiene and Infectious Disease Concept, staff and students are subject to different rules for wearing surgical masks. The Vice-Rector for Talent Development: Study and Teaching, Professor Roger Gläser, talks about why this is - and whether the semester could turn digital.

Some 7000 new students have just enrolled. The University’s hygiene rules stipulate that they and other students must wear masks in seminar rooms and lecture halls. Staff, on the other hand, do not have to wear masks. ...

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