What to do in case you are infected
1. COVID-POSITIVE PEOPLE
If you live in the University of Life Sciences dormitory and you start feeling any symptoms that could indicate you have COVID-19 virus, call your physician/family doctor immediately and tell them about it. You will be sent to take a COVID-test. If you have symptoms, self-isolate until you can take the test and until you receive the test results back so you don't possibly expose anyone else in the dormitory to the virus. Since the testing queues can be long, it may take a while until you get an appointment so make sure you call your doctor right away! The test results should arrive back to your e-mail in 24 hours. Any results that you take over the weekend should be shared to you on Monday.
The closest testing tent to the dormitory is next to the Tartu Song Grounds in Tähtvere. You will need a doctor's referral to go there.
It is also possible to pay for the test yourself and take it at a SynLab private clinic.
In case you receive back a positive COVID-test, you should inform your employer immediately. For students, this means you should inform the Head of the Chair of your study department and work out a study plan since you cannot physically attend classes while you are self-isolating/quarantining. If you test positive, you should also inform the people that you came into close contact with over the past 14 days so they know to self-isolate and test themselves if needed.
In case of a positive test result, the Health and Safety Board gets into contact with the dormitory as well and lets us know in which apartment the infected person is living. The rest of the personal information of the patient is not shared with the dormitory. The dormitory manager makes sure that the Health and Safety Board has all the contact information of the other tenants in that apartment.
The infected person should avoid all contact with others after finding out the positive result. They should wear a mask when returning home and while preparing for their quarantine. They should avoid all public areas and make sure to keep the 2 m required distance from others. People who have a permanent address in Estonia besides the dormitory, should quarantine back in their family home if possible, since the patient will need to have groceries and other necessities organized to be delivered to them. In case you are an exchange student and the dormitory is your only address in Estonia, you will need to quarantine in the dormitory. You cannot, however, quarantine in your dormitory apartment since the kitchen and bathroom is shared. For quarantine, we have one side of the dormitory 1st floor set aside for self-isolation/quarantine. We will share information on that personally to anyone that needs to quarantine.
In order to prevent the spread of the virus, you are forbidden to leave your quarantine room while sick. You are permitted to leave your quarantine room only on the orders of a health care or police worker or if there is any risk to your life or health at home.
The quarantining person will need to organize the delivery of food and other essentials by a friend or co-worker. If noone is available, contact your local municipality for help (through phone or e-mail).
Infected people should quarantine until full recovery. A decision of a full recovery is made by your doctor.
2. CLOSE CONTACTS
Anyone that has recently (in the last 14 days) come into contact with a COVID-positive person is considered a "close contact". All close contacts of the infected person should self-isolate for 14 days. It's possible to shorten the self-isolation to 10 days if the person takes a COVID-test after isolating for 10 days and the results are negative. If the result is positive, they will have to follow the rules above for COVID-positive people.
A quick way of finding out if you are a close contact is the HOIA app, which uses Bluetooth signals from nearby phones to register the owners of those phones as close contacts. When any of those people register themselves as COVID-positive in the app, you will be notified if this if you were near them in the past 14 days. The app is great if you plan to visit a crowded event/place (e.g. theatre, cinema, concert, public transport) where you are in a closed room with many strangers at once. The app is free in Google Play and Apple App Store.
2. CONTACTS OF CLOSE CONTACTS
Anyone who has been in contact with someone listed as a "close contact" is considered to be "contact of a close contact" and does not need to self-isolate if they are not showing any symptoms. But they should keep a close eye on their health and contact their doctor immediately if they start showing any symptoms.