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GordonMuchallNo1Fan said:
Sunderland approx 120 cases
Teesside 42 cases, of which only 9 are on campus

Durham uni 1220
Newcastle and Northumbria in the 1000s

Time to start asking questions of some of these universities and questioning the behaviour of students.
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DaveH said:
That is 368 cases in the last 7 days, just from the Uni. However this tweet says in the last 7 days there were 1358 cases in Durham:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1319599913668403200

I wonder how the other 990 cases spread. Lets hope this 73% were not thinking it was all a student problem and not taking due care.
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County Durham 530k population. The university are accounting for a high % of overall cases for the county.
 
offmenut said:
That looks like any town at 10pm
Loads leaving pubs in groups of less than 6 and walking to get home.
They all seem to be obeying rules and most certainly aren't all students
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It doesn't help when a police car comes flying up a narrow path forcing people to condense to the sides either.
 
GordonMuchallNo1Fan said:
County Durham 530k population. The university are accounting for a high % of overall cases for the county.
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While that is true, the point I'm making is there seems to be a trend of blaming just the students, and I have seen the phrase "Lock the students in halls and let the rest of us crack on". While illegal, it would not be a huge help.

There is a trend in society at the minute in wanting to put a big label on something or a group of people and pin all the blame for problems into them. We have seen it recently with 'immigrants' leading to brexit. Like I said above, if you took the 368 students out the picture, that still gives 990 cases in Durham last week. Students contribute 27% of the figures but the big danger here is if people see Covid in Durham as just a student party problem and relax, then the infection will continue to increase. Where is the other 990 being infected and how is it spreading in them? Why were Covid cases in County Durham increasing rapidly before the students returned (graph on the twitter link I posted)? The clear danger here is by blaming the students people simply ignore taking responsibilities themselves and the problems are never addressed.

Students need to act sensibly and take responsibility, but deamonising one group of people and pinning blame is just wrong on every possible level.
offmenut said:
That looks like any town at 10pm
Loads leaving pubs in groups of less than 6 and walking to get home.
They all seem to be obeying rules and most certainly aren't all students
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I live in a seaside town with a popular high street. It has narrow paths either side of the road. Those scenes look like the high street at 10am on a Saturday, only darker.
 
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There is one of the national reports from the government & PHE:

The table at the bottom of page 26 is interesting. I don't think all the week 42 figures are in, as all the graphs show a sudden dip in the final week, so going on the week 41 number, the group that includes students in halls at Uni contribute 2.3% of cases nationwide, slightly down from 2.4% the week before. Week 42 (last week) does say 1.5%, I do think that will change.
 
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