{"id":136130,"date":"2022-02-16T12:06:46","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T11:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=136130"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:26:07","slug":"obligation-to-wear-face-masks-in-higher-education-will-disappear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2022\/02\/16\/obligation-to-wear-face-masks-in-higher-education-will-disappear\/","title":{"rendered":"Obligation to wear face masks in higher education will disappear"},"content":{"rendered":"

Soon, there will be little left of the corona measures in higher education: as of this Friday, the lecture halls can be filled to capacity again and from 25 February wearing a face mask on campus will no longer be mandatory.<\/p>\n

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Students in a hybrid lecture in the Theil building, while new equipment is being tested.<\/span><\/p>

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\u201cThe country is opening up again\u201d, said Minister Ernst Kuipers on Tuesday evening at what was, for the time being, the final press conference on the coronavirus. Hospital admissions are no longer rising as fast as the number of corona infections. And that leads to a lot of relaxations.<\/p>\n

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The measures are loosened in phases. From now on, people are allowed to receive as many people as they want in their homes. And the advice to work at home as much as possible has been changed into: work at the office for a maximum of half of the working time.<\/p>\n\n\t

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