The University community must continue to follow Penn’s public health guidance on campus. Masking, distancing, washing, testing, and completing your daily PennOpen Pass are still required even if you are vaccinated. Penn’s public health program is based on evidence specific to our University population.

Actions to Keep the Penn Community Healthy

Penn tracks data and follows the latest science to make decisions in the best interest of public health. 

Actions by individuals remain our primary tools to minimize virus transmission:

• Wearing a mask,
• Staying physically distanced, especially when eating indoors or outdoors,
• Hand washing,
• Staying home when feeling sick, and
• Completing daily PennOpen Pass symptom checker and exposure reporting. The use of PennOpen Pass is required for those on campus.

The Penn community should remember that our decisions impact the lives and health of student pods, classmates, colleagues, and our West Philadelphia neighbors. 

Guided by our commitment to education and research and to the health and safety of our community, Penn supports innovative remote learning and work while inviting students back to campus to live and learn. Being vigilant about public health at Penn helps preserve the health of our neighbors as well. We all pull together because Penn Cares.

For the latest Penn COVID updates, visit https://coronavirus.upenn.edu/.