{"id":64148,"date":"2020-02-04T10:57:01","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T15:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=64148"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:32","slug":"message-president-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2020\/message-president-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Message from the President on the Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Message from the President on the Coronavirus\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p><em>Visit Carleton\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/coronavirus-covid-19\/\">COVID-19 website<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Feb. 4, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear Members of the Carleton Community,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am writing regarding the outbreak of the novel coronavirus that continues to raise concerns across the globe. At this time, the health risks to our community remain low, but we are monitoring the situation very carefully, and continue to follow the advice of public health organizations and experts in the field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The university has prepared a FAQ website \u2013 now updated to include a travel advisory \u2013 with more information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Novel Coronavirus FAQ<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once again I am deeply impressed by the resilient and inclusive nature of the Carleton community. We must continue to support each other \u2013 and in particular all members of the Chinese community \u2013 with respect and care. We will continue to provide updates as the situation evolves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Benoit-Antoine Bacon<br>\nPresident and Vice-Chancellor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visit Carleton\u2019s COVID-19 website. Feb. 4, 2020 Dear Members of the Carleton Community, I am writing regarding the outbreak of the novel coronavirus that continues to raise concerns across the globe. At this time, the health risks to our community remain low, but we are monitoring the situation very carefully, and continue to follow the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":63042,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1632],"tags":[1633],"class_list":["post-64148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coronavirus","tag-coronavirus"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64148"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64586,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64148\/revisions\/64586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}