UPH has been increasing preventive measures against the spread of COVID-19 in all areas around the campus? environment. Any necessary developments regarding COVID-19 has been monitored by the Taskforce team who receives official information from the Ministry of Health, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, World Health Organization (WHO), the Ministry of Education and Culture, Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management (BNPB), and Siloam Hospital as UPH?s university hospital.

Even with the minimum activity around campus due to the enactment of the online-learning policy for students and lecturers since March 18, 2020, and the Work From Home (WFH) policy for non-academic staff, preventive measures around the campus? environment are still applied. Some of them are temperature checking in the entrance access of UPH, hand sanitizer in public places (lounge, office, lobby), and sterilization in all classrooms, laboratories, library, offices, public areas, dormitory, canteen, lifts, storage rooms, and even the emergency stairs.

As an effort to enhance the immunity of lecturers and staff against COVID-19, the Human Relations Department (HRD) of UPH works together with the Faculty of Medicine for the distribution of Cernevit Multivitamin through an intravenous injection. This agenda was coordinated by HRD UPH and will require registration. Participants would have to be in good condition and they may not have any medication allergies. However, the injection will not be given for pregnant and breastfeeding mothers.

UPH also provides a special email address: healthreport@uph.edu for students, lecturers, and staff to report any complaints or information regarding COVID-19 symptoms. Routinely, the university?s information and policies regarding this situation will also be published on the website (https://www.uph.edu/id/covid-19-health-update).

Aside from that, health tips will be shared constantly through various media including email, whatsApp, website, and social media, to remind the academic community of UPH, as well as the public, to act wisely regarding this pandemic as suggested by WHO, ?BE WISE?.

UPH, along with all of its community, encourage everyone to pray for every area and individuals who are affected by COVID-19, for everyone to stick together and to gather strength in the midst of this pandemic, and most importantly, to ask God for a restoration.