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By Oliver Wright
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It s exactly 12 months since medics were summoned to what became the first confirmed case of Covid-19 in the UK. A year on, the BBC has spoken to the people who found themselves at the centre of the drama.
It was a Wednesday afternoon when a 23-year-old Chinese national called the NHS 111 phone line from his hotel room in York city centre. The University of York student, known in medical journals only as B , was suffering with a fever, a dry cough and muscle pain. His 50-year-old mother, A - who had flown to the UK from Wuhan, in Hubei province, a week earlier - was also feeling unwell with a fever, cough and sore throat.
Schoolchildren in Northwich, England, on the last day before the first lockdown in March 2020. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
Anxiety about the current cohort of schoolchildren is now at the forefront of concerns about the legacy of the pandemic. Recent changes of policy on school opening and exams has focused attention on their mental health, the lack of formal learning and qualifications, and the long-term damage to social mobility. But, along with these difficult experiences, the pandemic may also be delivering another kind of education: an informal education in social connectedness and compassion.
Whatâs happening to schoolchildren at the moment, particularly teens affected by the exam shambles, is as tough as it gets. Their social interaction has been drastically curtailed. Any freedoms they might have been gradually trying to negotiate with their parents have come to an abrupt halt. They are now mainly co
YORK St John University will continue to offer face-to-face teaching to a select number of critical courses over the lockdown period. The university said that students would still be welcome to attend study spaces, the library, accommodation, and on-campus supermarkets. It added that further guidance would also be issued about student accommodation. A spokesman said: “York St John University will only be delivering limited face-to-face teaching to a small number of students on critical courses defined by the government in national lockdown guidance from the Jan 4 until further notice. “We know how much all of our students value face-to-face learning opportunities and look forward to welcoming them safely back on campus as soon as Government restrictions allow. Until then, all learning, teaching and assessment activity for most students will take place online.”
People carry out asymptomatic testing using lateral flow antigen at a test centre at Edinburgh University ahead of students being allowed to travel home for the Christmas holidays. Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire YORK secondary school students will be offered rapid-result coronavirus tests before they return to the classroom as part of city-wide plans. A letter to Huntington School parents and carers, written by headteacher John Tomsett, has been published on the school s website today (Saturday), which includes what he says is a statement from Public Health York and the local authority. The statement explains that, in York, the plan being developed to support secondary schools, their staff and pupils, will involve the offer of testing from two dedicated school testing sites at the University of York and York St John University.
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