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• Public transport use may lead to major COVID-19 outbreak

  Date: 14/05/2020 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/may/public-transport-covid

  A leading academic at the University of Leicester has warned of major COVID-19 outbreaks amongst passengers using public transport if precautions...

• New tool launched to reduce frontline NHS staff deaths from COVID-19

  Date: 13/05/2020 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/may/new-tool

  A new tool to reduce the number of frontline NHS staff deaths from COVID-19 has been launched across the health service today.

• Call for guidance after BAME COVID-19 death figures released

  Date: 07/05/2020 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/may/call-for-guidance

  Urgent guidance on how the NHS will seek to minimise risk to those people from BAME backgrounds who are receiving care and serving on the...

• Serious concerns raised over lack of recorded BAME COVID-19 death data

  Date: 24/04/2020 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/april/bame-covid-lancet

  A senior University of Leicester clinician-scientist has raised serious concerns over the lack of recorded data on the number of deaths of people...

• Leicester academics explore possible BAME and COVID-19 link

  Date: 24/04/2020 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/april/bame-covid-bmj

  In a new paper published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), academics at the University of Leicester highlighted possible reasons why people...

• Mythbusting coronavirus from Amazon to Zoflora: cleaning facts and fiction

  Date: 24/04/2020 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/april/24-mythbusting-coronavirus

  How long can coronavirus survive on your Amazon parcels, and should you disinfect your shopping trolly when going to the supermarket? According Dr...

• Decoy protein injection could stop COVID-19

  Date: 17/04/2020 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/april/17-decoy-protein-covid-19

  Decoy proteins that bind and trap the coronavirus to stop it infecting cells in our bodies are being developed by the University of Leicester.

• Coronavirus or hay fever? Leicester academics share guidance on symptoms

  Date: 10/04/2020 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/april/10-coronavirus-hay-fever

  Warm weather over the Easter weekend and a new burst of birch pollen in the air has set off hay fever symptoms for millions of sufferers across...

• Film shows ‘breathtaking’ emissions reductions during lockdown

  Date: 07/04/2020 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/april/07-air-quality-plots

  Timelapse satellite imagery from the University of Leicester reveals startling reductions in air pollution.

• Why coronavirus can be fatal in young people

  Date: 03/04/2020 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/april/03-corona-in-young

  Coronavirus can be fatal to young people because of the extreme immune response triggered by the virus within their body, advises Dr Julian Tang,...