{"id":3893,"date":"2022-10-20T09:07:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T05:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/?p=3893"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:46:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:46:54","slug":"aus-relaxes-covid-19-precautions-on-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/2022\/10\/20\/aus-relaxes-covid-19-precautions-on-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"AUS Relaxes Covid-19 Precautions on Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Meera Shaheen&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sharjah, UAE<strong>: <\/strong>A security officer and a student at the Mass Communication Department at the American University of Sharjah said during an interview on Oct.19 that they prefer the reduced COVID-19 rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shahd Elsokary, an MCM student said, \u201cI used to get up two hours before class since I knew 20 minutes would be spent in line. With the new rules, I now use that time to have breakfast instead.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elsokary dreaded the long wait outside buildings, especially in the hot weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of the time the reason she was late to classes was because of finding a mask and waiting in line to show her green Al-Hosn pass.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emad Saeed, the head of AUS security, said, \u201cwithout Covid regulations our lives are easier, there was no mental stress, a happier life. Covid brought too much stress.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saeed preferred his job responsibilities before Covid.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The biggest problem he faced was students trying to escape showing Al-Hosn so that they are not late to class.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He had to run after students to ensure he did his job well.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Meera Shaheen&nbsp; Sharjah, UAE: A security officer and a student at the Mass Communication Department at the American University of Sharjah said during an interview on Oct.19 that they prefer the reduced COVID-19 rules. Shahd Elsokary, an MCM student said, \u201cI used to get up two hours before class since I knew 20 minutes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[33,32,17,51],"class_list":{"0":"post-3893","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"tag-aus","9":"tag-campus","10":"tag-community","11":"tag-covid-19"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}