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More than 1,500 Manchester university students have been forced to self-isolate “with immediate effect”.
Up to 1,700 students will be isolated for 14 days after 99 at Manchester Metropolitan University tested positive for Covid-19.
They have been urged to attend virtual rookie events and avoid the big parties.
Students in housing blocks on the Birley and Cambridge Halls campuses are affected.
Manchester City Council said it was implementing a “local lockdown” to stop the spread of the virus between students and prevent it from reaching the wider community.
“The evidence so far suggests that transmission has been within the student community,” he said.
A spokesperson for the university said, “The safety of our staff and students, and our local community, is our highest priority and we fully support the decision.
“Services such as wellness support and the library will remain available to our students online.
“Our security teams will increase patrols to support the lockdown and we will take disciplinary action against any student found to have violated the requirements.”
David Regan, Manchester Public Health Director, said: “An important part of Manchester’s Local Prevention and Response Plan for coronavirus is to keep a close eye on the data and act quickly and decisively when an outbreak is identified to contain the virus. That is what we have done here. “
Union of Universities and Colleges Secretary General Jo Grady said it was a “totally predictable and predicted catastrophe.”
“It makes no sense to encourage students to come to the university to isolate themselves for fifteen days,” he said.
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