{"id":8341,"date":"2020-03-23T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T16:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/update-response-to-covid-19-copy\/"},"modified":"2020-03-23T19:09:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T17:09:08","slug":"spu-lockdown-due-to-covid19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/spu-lockdown-due-to-covid19\/","title":{"rendered":"University lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"8341\" class=\"elementor elementor-8341\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3ec8dbc1 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3ec8dbc1\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-30957904\" data-id=\"30957904\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-aa80d6a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"aa80d6a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The University Council, on the advice of Senior Management Team, has agreed to a University lockdown for all SPU staff, from Tuesday, 24 March 2020 to Tuesday, 14 April 2020, under the following conditions:<\/p><ol><li>Employees are required to self-isolate for the period of the lockdown.<\/li><li>Access to the University campuses is limited and at your own risk.\u00a0 Staff must notify Campus Security and their Line Managers before coming onto campus.<\/li><li>All academic and administrative staff will be required to work remotely. Deliverables should be confirmed with Line Managers.<\/li><li>ICT support will be available through remote platforms that will be communicated in due course.<\/li><li>All internal and external meetings are cancelled until further notice.<\/li><li>A skeletal staff in the area of Maintenance will be on duty for the duration of the lockdown.<\/li><li>Employees to follow normal procedures for the application of Annual Leave \u2013 where applicable.<\/li><li>Plans to continue the infrastructure project is being managed by the Chief Operating Officer.<\/li><li>Any member of the SPU community has the responsibility to report, to their Line Manager, their exposure to an infected person or a suspected infected person or who are themselves infected.<\/li><li>Anyone who has travelled nationally and internationally to infectious hotspots must ensure that the necessary health precautions have been taken to ensure their health and that of others.<\/li><li>Employees to communicate directly with their own Medical Aid Provider should they need to be tested for COVID-19.<\/li><\/ol>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University Council, on the advice of Senior Management Team, has agreed to a University lockdown for all SPU staff, from Tuesday, 24 March 2020 to Tuesday, 14 April 2020, under the following conditions: Employees are required to self-isolate for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/spu-lockdown-due-to-covid19\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-8341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-releases","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8341"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8353,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8341\/revisions\/8353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8341"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=8341"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}