Students in Manchester hold ‘Covid Positive’ parties where only people with the infection are allowed to attend
- Institutions are stepping up attempts to curb rising infection rates on campuses
- But some students are hosting ‘Covid positive’ parties in their halls of residence
- Freshers throwing 24-hour parties as they remain under stringent restrictions
University students are throwing ‘Covid positive’ parties as they desperately try to salvage their social lives amid draconian lockdown measures on campuses.
Freshers at the University of Manchester and Northumbria University say undergraduates confined to their halls of residence are throwing 24-hour parties as they remain under stringent restrictions.
Meanwhile the University of Exeter today confirmed a number of students had been sent home for breaching Covid guidelines.
Undergraduates confined to their halls of residence are throwing 24-hour parties as they remain under stringent restrictions
University students are throwing ‘Covid positive’ parties as they try to salvage their social lives
Students at the University of Manchester were last week filmed throwing an illegal party
One physics student at the University of Manchester told the Guardian that a party at their Fallowfield campus halls of residence was broken up by security on Saturday.
The 18-year-old told the paper: ‘There was a flat party a few days ago which had a policy that you could only get in if you were positive. It was like their health-and-safety measure.’
A student from Northumbria University also told the Guardian that parties were still rife in halls.
More than 50 universities in the UK have confirmed cases of Covid-19, after thousands of undergraduates returned to campus for the start of the autumn term.
Manchester University, where there have been 382 coronavirus cases since September 21, has now joined with Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Sheffield in announcing a move to online learning to protect the health of students and staff.
The Manchester universities said they had made the decision together in consultation with the area’s director of public health, supported by Public Health England.
Just days ago, police were called to break up a fight between students at a ‘house party’ at a locked-down halls of residence.
Manchester University (pictured), where there have been 382 coronavirus cases since September 21, joined with Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Sheffield in announcing a move to online learning to protect the health of students and staff
More than 1,500 students at Manchester Met University were asked not to leave their flats and self-isolate after a coronavirus outbreak at its accommodation blocks.
A video showed police arriving at what appears to be a late-night gathering at the university’s Birley Halls of residence – one of those under lockdown.
Residents said the youngsters were hosting a house party involving ‘at least 20 students’ when a fight broke out at 4.30am last Friday.