According to a study by the UAB Centre for Demographic Studies, vulnerability to COVID-19 in Spanish provinces is due to the larger or smaller proportion of younger and older people, and to cohabitation patterns. Although only 14% of the population under 65 lives with the elderly, these could transmit more than half of the contagions occuring within the home.
The University has created two online spaces, "La UAB respon" and "Col·laboració amb els mitjans", with videos and opinion articles by lecturers and researchers who talk about issues related to SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, their psychological and social effects and tools to help counter them.
The UAB teaching centres and services are not indifferent to the situation caused by COVID-19, and have organised a series of initiatives related to their areas of knowledge, to help make this period of self-isolation easier.
Big Data, Egyptology, 3D Art and video game animation, Psychological First Aid, Digital Humanities and How to Be Persuasive are some of the more than 40 online MOOC courses offered by the UAB, totally free and available at any time. For the first time this year, members of the UAB community will be able to receive a MOOC certificate.
The UAB Veterinary Clinical Hospital has published a website with a list of questions and answers on the most pressing issues related to coronavirus and pets. Until the moment, there has been no evidence that the SARS-CoV-2 (the coronavirus causing COVID-19), can affect pets or that they are capable of transmitting the disease.
From 19 to 21 March, Catalonia's universities will be offering information online on the UNIferia platform due to the cancellation of the Education Fair.
From 19 to 21 March, Catalonia's universities will be offering information online on the UNIferia platform due to the cancellation of the 2020 Education Fair.
According to Royal Decree 463/2020 passed by the Spanish Government, in which the state of alert is declared towards the management of the health crisis created by COVID – 19, the PRUAB has decided to reduce all on-site activity to the minimum level necessary to assure the safety of its personnel and facilities. All communications during this health crisis will be posted in the university's web portal (www.uab.cat/coronavirus).
With regard to the current state of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, the UAB is adhering strictly to the instructions dictated by the Catalan and Spanish Ministries for Health and the Catalan Public Health Agency, and a monitoring commission has been set up to analyze daily the information received from official sources. (Updated information 11/03/2020)