BREAKING: Manchester Metropolitan University halls locked down after 127 coronavirus cases
Around 1,700 students are being locked down in Manchester Metropolitan halls of residence tonight after more than 100 coronavirus cases were recorded.
Halls at the university’s Birley campus, as well as Cambridge Hall are to face emergency restrictions for a fortnight, with people living there told to self isolate ‘with immediate effect’. Last weekend the Manchester Evening News reported hat a number of students were already self isolating at the Birley campus days after a 100-strong party was reported in the courtyard.
Since then, case numbers have soared to 127 across that site and Cambridge Halls, with a number of other students also recording symptoms.As a result the council, university and Public Health England have jointly agreed to introduce lockdown measures.
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