7月8日（木）に政府は、7月12日（月）から8月22日（日）まで東京都に緊急事態宣言を再度発出し、神奈川県内にはまん延防止等重点措置を継続することを決定しました。

ついては、本学の今後の対応として、各キャンパスにおける新型コロナウイルス感染防止策を再度徹底し、学生、教職員の皆さんの安全を確保しつつ、現在実施している授業形態【6月21日（月）より実施している授業形態】を前学期終了まで継続することといたします。

◆在学生の皆さんや大学関係者にも感染者や濃厚接触者が増えている状況は変わっていません。授業内での感染防止対策はもとより、授業外でも各自で感染予防に努めてください。最近では特に変異株の感染が広がっており、若者にも感染者が増え、重症化する人も出ています。変異株の初発症状は風邪と似た軽度のものが多いため医療機関への受診が遅れ、濃厚接触者を増やすことにもつながります。また、変異株はエアロゾル（飛沫感染）が多いと言われているため、エレベーター内など狭い場所での会話を控え、喫食時には個食・黙食に努めましょう。

皆さん自身の身の安全を確保すると同時に、周囲の大切な人の命を守るための「感染しない」「感染させない」ことに配慮し、少しでも体調不良を感じたら外出をせず様子をみてください。学生の皆さんの理性ある行動を願っています。

Kanagawa University Measures with Regard to Continued Spread of COVID-19 (From 12 July Onwards)

On Thursday 8 July, the Japanese Government announced that it had been decided that a COVID-19 state of emergency will once again be issued for Tokyo Metropolis from Monday 12 July to Sunday 22 August and Kanagawa Prefecture will have an extension of the priority measures such as prevention of spread (quasi state of emergency).

Taking this into account, with regard to measures to be taken by Kanagawa University into the future, we will once again strengthen our COVID-19 countermeasures on each campus to ensure the safety of our students and staff. At the same time we will continue with the current class structure (the class structure as conducted since Monday 21 June) until the end of First Semester.

The situation in which the number of infected people and close contacts is increasing among current students and university staff remains unchanged. In addition to infection control measures in the classroom, please try to prevent infection by yourself outside of class. Recently, spread of variants of the virus in particular has become more prevalent and cases of young people getting the virus and even developing serious symptoms have increased. The initial symptoms of the variants are similar to that of a common cold, which means that many people delay visiting the doctor and have close interaction with more people. Variants seem to have higher chances of aerosol infection so please avoid conversation in closed spaces such as elevators and, when eating, eat alone and silently.

In addition to looking after your own health, at the same time make sure you look after the health of the people around you and act rationally, following the principles of “don’t get infected/don’t infect others”. If you feel even slightly unwell, do not go outside and monitor your situation carefully. We wish that all of you will act rationally and appreciate your cooperation.