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Image Description: View of the Radcliffe camera (left) and cartoon of a woman holding giant rapid Covid-19 test (right) The University’s Early Alert Service has recorded 0 positive cases for the week 10th – 16th April, from a total of 51 tests taken. This week’s results is a drop from last week, which saw a […]
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Image Description: View of the Radcliffe camera (left) and cartoon of a woman holding giant rapid Covid-19 test (right) The University has recorded 3 positive cases out of 39 tests taken between 13th and 19th March, down from 6 in the previous week. Further, twice-weekly asymptomatic testing arrangements are confirmed to be in place from […]
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Data from Oxford University’s Early Alert Service states that between the 6th and 12th March, the University recorded a total of 6 positive cases out of 41 tests taken. This includes 3 student and 3 staff cases, a small rise from 1 positive case among students in the previous week. This brings the total number […]
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Image description: The Radcliffe Camera on a sunny day The University coronavirus testing service have released their latest testing statistics for the week 20th – 26th February. Just one of the 54 tests taken was positive, giving a positivity rate of 1.9%. This means that since the start of the testing service in August, a […]
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The government has told universities to allocate departure dates during a “student travel window” between 3rd and 9th December, with a mass-testing programme rolling out between 30th November and 6th December, in order to minimise the risk of students spreading Covid-19 to other parts of the country. Universities Minister Michelle Donelan, speaking on BBC Breakfast, […]
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Image description: the storefront of Boots. Boots, the high street pharmacy, has announced that it will launch a private test providing results within twelve minutes by November to 50 stores across the UK. This is by far the fastest test result currently available and significantly overshadows the NHS test result wait time. Twelve minutes is […]
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Image description: a cartoon character getting a coronavirus test. Matt Hancock said last Wednesday that around 25% of those seeking COVID-19 tests were ‘not eligible’, complaining of a ‘rise in the number of people who are not eligible’. Those who don’t have symptoms, he warned, should not be tested. The government website has also added […]
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Following news that Cambridge University would be conducting weekly, in-college testing of asymptomatic students, many students at Oxford have expressed concerns as to why their university had not announced a similar policy. The University has now offered an official response exclusively to The Oxford Student, explaining their testing system, and why they do not have […]
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Image Description: British Government NHS coronavirus public information poster. The Government’s early response to the Covid-19 pandemic drew widespread criticism for its lack of robustness. Initial reports suggested that No. 10 favoured allowing the population to develop a natural “herd immunity” which would protect the most vulnerable. It is not yet clear whether delaying the […]
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On 16th March, Dr. Adhanom, the Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) said that the key to defeating COVID-19 was to “test, test, test.” After all, “you cannot fight a fire blindfolded.” But, “fighting it blindfolded” is exactly what we are doing. Our testing figures are shocking: as of the 3rd of April, only […]
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Image Credit: Rama (CC BY-SA 2.0 FR) The Animal Justice Project (AJP), an animal rights organisation, is claiming that Oxford University still tests more animals than any other UK body, following the release of new Home Office figures. According to statistics from the University itself, last year it experimented on nearly quarter of a million […]
Continue ReadingNew figures now show that Oxford conducts more animal testing in laboratories than any other UK university. 226,739 animals were used for experiments in 2014, over 25,000 more than the next largest user of animal testing, Edinburgh. This is an increase on 2012 when a Freedom of Information request carried out by C+ revealed Oxford […]
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