A new study looking at the risk factors for coronavirus based on location has indicated that a quarter of all constituencies in Britain could have avoided lockdown and kept their economies alive during the pandemic. Experts at De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) gathered data for six characteristics that outline the risk in each of the […]
Southampton will take a leading role in evaluating regular COVID-19 infection testing for whole households by assessing a new weekly home-testing approach using saliva samples. The programme will assess the feasibility of carrying out home-testing on a large scale. Southampton is evaluating a combination of weekly COVID-19 infection testing using a saliva sampling kit plus […]
LGBTQ people are facing loneliness, job loss and hostility in the COVID-19 lockdown, says Dr Rohit K Dasgupta, and for some communities it’s a ‘life and death situation’. From moving back home, to struggling to afford food and ‘pressing pause on coming out’, the Lougborough University London academic is gathering evidence of experiences that show […]
A University of Brighton graduate with cerebral palsy is walking 270 miles – the equivalent of driving from Brighton to Liverpool – and he’s not finished yet. Hamish Patel is raising money to help buy hospital equipment for a small town in Zambia which has scant resources to fight the pandemic. He has relatives in […]
