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LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY
Laurentian University to require COVID-19 vaccine on campus

August 17, 2021

Last week, Laurentian University announced a significant step in protecting the health and safety of our campus by requiring students in residence and student athletes to be fully vaccinated. Today (August 16), we are announcing that we are taking the additional step to require all persons attending campus to be vaccinated against COVID-19. 

This additional measure is being taken based on the strong recommendation from the Medical Officer of Health for Public Health Sudbury and Districts (PHSD), Dr. Penny Sutcliffe, and after consultation with labour groups and student association leaders. Our colleagues at other institutions in Ontario, as well as locally at Cambrian College and Collège Boréal, were an important part of these discussions.

With increasing infection rates caused by the highly transmissible Delta variant, Dr. Sutcliffe, has strongly recommended a vaccination policy which requires all individuals attending in-person activities on campus to report their immunization status. Preventing COVID-19 will continue to be a community effort and I strongly encourage all who are able to be fully vaccinated as soon as possible. 

This policy will take effect September 8, 2021 and any person attending campus after this date that is not fully vaccinated will be subject to measures such as testing and screening.  Individuals who cannot be vaccinated based on medical or other grounds recognized by the Ontario Human Rights Code can request an accommodation. We will be engaging with our community groups at the University as we develop the details of this plan and additional information on the implementation of the vaccination policy will be shared. 

With the support of PHSD, members of the Laurentian community will be able to access vaccines on campus. Over the next few weeks the mobile vaccine bus will visit campus and a pop-up clinic is scheduled before classes start. Vaccine appointments can also be scheduled at the Health and Wellness clinic on campus.  

Furthermore, Laurentian will continue with other health and safety measures including wearing face coverings indoors, maintaining physical distancing, and enhanced cleaning. 

In closing, I would like to express my gratitude to the faculty, staff and students that have been engaged in developing our Return to Campus plans and all of you for your ongoing compliance and commitment to doing what is required to support a safe return to face-to-face learning this fall.  

Thank you, Miigwech, Merci,

Robert Haché, Ph.D. 
President and Vice-Chancellor

For more information

Laurentian University
935 Ramsey Lake Road
Sudbury Ontario
Canada P3E 2C6
www.laurentian.ca


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