The Medical Burlesque announces that the first two performances of the show “Margareta – King Trousers Cross the Border” is canceled. The performances should have been given on Saturdays March 28 and April 25 in the Concert Hall, Stenhammarsalen, but these occasions are thus canceled. The burlesque has also a show  scheduled on Saturday, May 2, and the arrangers await the development before announcing if thsi show will be held as planned or not.

• Campus service will now prioritize matters relating to AV technology, freight reception and mail handling.
• As of March 21, four of the university’s five service centers are closed for visits, including the Academicum service center. Only the Vasa service center in the university’s main building will remain open for part of the day, Monday to Friday. Updated information: https://www.gu.se/servicecenter.
• Access to premises is limited. The main entrances are open from 07:30 to 16:00, during other hours a access card is required to enter. Lecture rooms in Medicinarelängan are locked but are opened with access cards. At the Hälosvetarbacken the entrance doors are locked, but you come in with a access card.

The crisis management group at GU asks all faculties to take stock if we have protective equipment that can be spared. The request concerns visors, water repellent mouthguards, mouthguards with breathing valve, long sleeve protective robes, and overalls.
The collection is coordinated by security manager Jörgen Svensson, and the equipment is received and stored by Campus Service. Bring protective equipment that can be spared to the campus service cargo bay, Medicinaregatan 1G, from where the equipment will also be collected by staff from Sahlgrenska University Hospital. Until April, the cargo bay is open between 07:30 and 16:00. From May 1, the opening hours for the cargo bay are 07: 30-15: 30.

As of Monday, March 23, Häloscaféet (‘the Health Café’) at Hälsovetarbacken and Café Lundberg in Lundberglab will close. Café Anatomen continues to be open as usual. Restaurant Lyktan is open for lunch pickup, where you pay your lunch box using swish. Restaurant Lustgården in Änggårdshemmet has closed. However, the food truck Tikka Roti will be in place with its regular selection, and add other dishes to the menu at bi-weekly intervals as before.

The Swedish Ethical Review Authority now provides the opportunity for priority handling for ethics review of applications related to covid-19 research. The authority has established a procedure for priority handling, as such research can be very important and in many cases of almost immediate importance to public health and critical social interests in the current situation. More information can be found on the Swedish Ethical Review Authority’s website (in Swedish): https://etikprovningsmyndigheten.se/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/INFORMATION-COVID-19.pdf

The national meeting of the medical faculties that was scheduled to be held in Gothenburg on April 21-22 is canceled, due to the circumstances concerning the coronavirus disease covid-19. Agneta Holmäng will discuss how this year’s meeting should be handled with the other medical deans. One possibility is to postpone the meeting, and hold it late this fall instead.

Due to the spread of COVID-19, the Science Festival has decided not to conduct the festival on April 20-29. In a statement, the organizers  write that they think it is a pity not least considering how many partners, participants and visitors have been involved in the festival’s program, but given the situation, it is not an option to carry out the festival in April. If the situation stabilizes, the organizers hope to be able to carry out a smaller version of the festival during week 40 this fall. Click here if you need to contact the Science Festival regarding the postponement.

At a press conference on Friday afternoon, Matilda Ernkrans, Minister of Higher Education, announced that Swedish Scholastic Aptitude Test SweSAT will be canceled. This is an extraordinary measure that has never been taken before, but the responsible authority UHR believes it is necessary, as the risk of infection would be too great if the 70,000 registered participants carried out the test at 120 locations on April 4 as planned. Authorities and the government will analyze how the effects of the missing the SweSAT can be mitigated in the autumn round of admission, for example by broadening the selection basis for grades.