Students back on UK campuses amid explosive growth of Indian covid variant
University students began returning to campus on May 17, during the Johnson government’s reopening the economy while removing restrictions on the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The first reopening of campuses last September led to the massive spread of Covid-19, forcing thousands of students to self-isolate after travelling away from friends and family. The government is repeating the same reckless policy, recommending that all students be “eligible to return to in-person teaching and learning.”
A sign reading COVID ROOMS at the Courtrooms halls of residence at Bristol university last term (credit: WSWS)
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He said he received the report earlier this month which found the intelligence agencies had coalesced around two theories for how the virus originated: either it spread naturally from animal to human or accidentally leaked from a lab.
Biden said a definitive conclusion has yet to be made, but two elements of the intelligence community lean toward the human contact with an infected animal theory, while one leans toward the lab-leak scenario.
The statement said the agencies have “low or moderate confidence” about their assessment.
“I have now asked the Intelligence Community to redouble their efforts to collect and analyze information that could bring us closer to a definitive conclusion, and to report back to me in 90 days,” Biden said.