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As a small consolation, we have prepared a selection of Bergkirchweih backgrounds for Zoom, so that you can at least enjoy a virtual visit to the Berg. Download Bergkirchweih backgrounds

More than 65,000 euros in donations for students in need have already been received. Laptops can also be donated which will be loaned to students in need.

The twelve member universities of Universität Bayern e.V have agreed on a directive for the implementation of the Second Bavarian Regulation on Infection Prevention and Control Measures at the Bavarian universities. FAU adopted the hygiene guidelines in this directive on 5 May 2020.

One of the major challenges we are facing at the moment is how to provide doctors’ surgeries and care homes with enough protective equipment. Bearing this in mind, FAU students have launched the initiative ‘3D-Druck gegen Coronavirus’ (3D printing against the coronavirus) in order to help doctors’ surgeries and care homes by supplying them with the materials they need.

Covid-19 leads to a similar excessive immune reaction in the lungs as in organs affected by rheumatism, psoriasis or intestinal inflammation. A research team at FAU has now shown in a study that drugs used to treat autoimmune diseases inhibit Covid-19 infections before the coronavirus can spread in the body.