The country-wide coronavirus death toll stands at 52,745 people as of 17th November. There have been close to 1.5 million cases and 196,559 hospital admissions. Though the number of new cases daily remains high, there has been a decrease over the last few days, bringing it down to just over 20,000. The daily death toll…
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NHS workers stay in empty UEA student accommodation
UEA has offered accommodation to NHS frontline officers during the on-going pandemic. After allowing students early release from their accommodation contracts, UEA has offered the empty rooms to NHS staff. There are currently 68 Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (NNUH) and Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust (NCHC) staff staying in…
Interview
NHS Workers- Compassion amidst COVID-19
“They can’t have any family beside them when they die.” Says an NHS front line worker over the phone to me. She sounds tired, exhausted even. Who can blame her though? Palliative care is no easy job ordinarily, let alone in the midst of a global health pandemic. She continues her point. “So I’m there…
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Students run 10,200km in their gardens to raise money for the NHS
At 8pm on the 30th of April, members of the Cambridge University Air Squadron (CUAS) joined their fellow squadrons around the country in embarking on a 10,200km continuous relay in their gardens. This distance is equivalent to that between the RAF’s most northerly base, RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland, and most easterly base, RAF Akrotiri in…
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Sportspark offers free day-care for NHS workers’ children
UEA Sportspark has re-opened to provide day-care for the children of frontline NHS workers. The Sportspark will open between 8am and 8pm on weekdays. As well as being looked after by staff, the children will also be allowed to make use of the Sportspark’s award-winning facilities, which include an Olympic swimming pool. Volunteers and Sportspark…
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Testing centres and scientific partnerships: how Norwich is fighting coronavirus
A drive-through testing centre at Norwich Research Park is one measure scientists and NHS staff are taking in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Scientists from UEA have joined staff at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH) as well as volunteers from each research organisation at Norwich Research Park to work at isolating and…
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The NHS Clap is representative of the worst parts of the British government and people
The clock strikes 8, and in suburban England, the white middle-England crowds stand on their modest doorsteps and perform The Clap for an abstracted and white-washed image of the NHS. This clapping is symptomatic of a hyper individualistic and cognitively dissonant British exceptionalism. The cherry on the top is a thinly veiled racism planted at…
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With care cut short, the struggle is real
It is April 2020. The supermarket aisles of rice, grains and pulses have been emptied, and people wear masks as if dreading your very presence. We yearn for the day when our favourite foods emerge again in abundance, when our virus spreading concerns are finally laid to rest. And this new home bound reality poses…
Interview
Coronavirus could be around for ‘several years’, warns UEA expert
This is not your standard interview. Instead of sitting across from Paul Hunter, UEA professor of Medicine, microbiologist and expert on the coronavirus pandemic, I’m chatting to him over the phone since the UK is in lockdown. The coronavirus pandemic has gripped the world and left many in disarray. I start by asking him the…
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