Date: June 27, 2022
To: Students, Faculty and Staff������
From: President Kiyotaka Morisako,
������Director of the Novel Coronavirus Infection Control Task Force��������������������������������

Re: Reduced quarantine period for persons with close contacts and continued
thorough infection control measure requirements

��The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has notified us that the quarantine period for close contacts of new coronavirus infection has been shortened from seven days to five days, due to disease patterns of the currently predominant Omicron strain. If you have become or are at risk of having been a close contact of a confirmed positive case, please refer to the following Kyoto Prefecture (Q&A for close contacts) website and follow the required measures.
��During Obon and summer vacation visits with family you may come in contact with many elderly people and persons you don��t ordinarily visit. Please consider having a third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine and undergoing a medical examination before returning home or to your home country.
��The number of newly positive cases in Kyoto Prefecture is increasing rapidly, and there is concern that the infection may spread further. Again, we strongly urge you take thorough measures to prevent contagion.

Reference: Kyoto Prefecture “To all those concerned about novel coronavirus infection (Q&A for persons in close contact)” (external link)
https://www.pref.kyoto.jp/kentai/corona/qa.html
��This information is only available in Japanese.��

Reference: Kyoto City Information Center, “To those who have been diagnosed with novel coronavirus and those who have been in close contact with the patient” (3) If you have been in close contact with the patient] (external link)
https://www.city.kyoto.lg.jp/hokenfukushi/page/0000294318.html#3noukou
��This information is only available in Japanese.��