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<div class="">Please reply to myself and Stepan regarding the email below, with some urgency, ideally as soon as you read this email. </div>
<div class="">The cancellations are increasing and we need as clear a picture of the shifts landscape as soon as possible.</div>
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<div class="">- any shifts your institute can cover even if it means changing the named person to someone already on-site at JLab during the shift dates</div>
<div class="">- any shifts you cannot cover but have already made some agreement with a local to cover</div>
<div class="">- any significantly at risk to the best of your current knowledge</div>
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<div class="">— in general let us know what you know.</div>
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<div class="">On 5 Mar 2020, at 12:46, Joo, Kyungseon <<a href="mailto:kyungseon.joo@uconn.edu" class="">kyungseon.joo@uconn.edu</a>> wrote:</div>
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<span class="">Dear CLAS Collaborators,</span></div>
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<font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">The situation with the COVID-19 (coronavirus) and its impact on international travel evolves daily. Many scientific institutions have already implemented restrictions
for non-essential travels, some large meetings and conferences have been canceled. JLAB has restricted all non-essential travels for March and April. As it was expected for a large international</span>collaboration<span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""> like
CLAS, these restrictions adversely affected the CLAS12 operations in Hall-B. Collaborators, initially from Italy but now also from Germany, could not and will not be able to travel to JLAB for their shifts. Others may follow, France, UK... So far we relied
on volunteers to fill the missing shifts. But as more shifts will be canceled this simple "volunteering" will not work.</span></font><br class="">
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To mitigate the situation we are asking institutional representatives to assess the situation with their travels for shifts and respond ASAP to the followings:<br class="">
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a) which shifts as assigned now in the shift schedule will not be fulfilled because of travel restrictions<br class="">
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b) are there collaborators on site from the institution or is there any arrangement with local universities/institutions to take care of the shifts<br class="">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Please contact B. McKinnon, S. Stepanyan (PDL) or me with any questions.</span><br class="">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Best regards, Kyungseon JOO</span></div>
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Kyungseon JOO</div>
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Dr. Bryan McKinnon<br class="">
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Nuclear and Hadron Physics Research<br class="">
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