Reopening Phase 2
Began May 22, 2020.
Prerequisites for advancing to Phase 2
- State of Kansas continues to lift "safer at home" orders.
- Local indicators of infection spread show stable or decreasing community transmission.
- Clusters of cases are promptly identified and contained and do not spread to the community.
- Health care and public health systems can cope with the volume of current and potential cases.
Criteria in Phase 2
- Modify social distancing restrictions according to CDC guidelines.
- Maintaining at least six-foot social distancing from every other person present at a location.
- Washing hands with soap and water for at least twenty seconds as frequently as possible, or using hand sanitizer.
- Covering coughs or sneezes — cough into the sleeve or elbow, not into the hands.
- Regularly cleaning high-touch surfaces.
- Avoid shaking hands.
- Maintaining at least six-foot social distancing from every other person present at a location.
- Mass gatherings are limited to 15 or fewer individuals.
- High-risk individuals restrict activities as much as possible.
- Individuals are encouraged to wear face masks when social distancing is not possible.
- All employees who will return to campus will need to complete the EHS training.
- All employees who will return to campus will need to complete the EHS training.
- Employees are encouraged to work remotely as much as possible.
- Individuals who test positive for COVID-19 must remain in isolation for at least 10 days from symptom onset or until free from fever for 72 hours, whichever is longer — or follow current public health officer's guidance.
- Individuals awaiting test results must remain in isolation.
- Individuals who have close contact with confirmed cases must self-quarantine for 10 days without symptoms.