I have never considered myself to be a visual artist. As an English Literature graduate and lifelong lover of words, my strengths always lay with written media and art forms, and I’m incredibly proud of that. However, when my course finished during lockdown I found that these skills inevitably became tangled up in the post…
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China reimplements restrictions due to rising coronavirus cases
A new outbreak of coronavirus in Beijing has proven to be the most severe since the original epidemic in February. This has led to government officials reimplementing restrictions and rising concerns regarding the efficacy of previous quarantine measures. Excluding Chinese nationals returning from abroad, Beijing had reported no new locally transmitted cases of the virus…
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UEA midfielder on coping with lockdown in France.
UEA central midfielder, Sam Nelson, is currently on his year abroad in Toulouse, studying French and International Relations, choosing to remain there for the rest of the summer. Like in Britain, the country is just starting to lift some of its lockdown measures. “All the shops are just opening, and libraries, but no bars or…
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Favourite livestream
The one thing that has kept me going since the lockdown began, which I have been rewatching almost every week, has to be Chris Martin’s live streamed session for Global Citizens’ #TogetherAtHome. The livestream happened just as lockdown was announced way back in late March, but still is one of my favourites. Chris Martin, the…
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Concerns over mental health during Italy’s lockdown
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the COVID-19 disease, has proven to be a highly infectious and deadly pathogen. But there’s another hidden crisis spreading alongside the virus, the psychological toll of government lockdowns. Social distancing measures, usually in the form of a lockdown, have been essential to controlling the spread of this virus. Italy was…
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We can’t let lockdown ruin the economy
The UK death toll from coronavirus stands over 20,000. It’s going to get worse, but how bad does the economy have to get before we’re forced out of this current state of lockdown? I understand the dilemma. Over the last few days, Dominic Raab, Damian Green and Edward Argar have all explained that the state…