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Deprivation is ‘driving’ Covid-19 ethnic disparities, claims new analysis

Deprivation is ‘driving’ Covid-19 disparities among minority ethnic groups and could be considered the main cause of disproportionate infection...

Maths students help enhance East Midlands police forces

A group of students from the University of Leicester have been helping police with their enquiries – but not in the way you might think.

Study reveals seven in ten patients hospitalised with COVID-19 not fully recovered five months post-discharge

The majority of survivors who left hospital following COVID-19 did not fully recover five months after discharge and continued to experience...

University of Leicester granted Freedom of the Borough by Oadby & Wigston Borough Council

At an extraordinary meeting of full council on Tuesday 30 March, Oadby & Wigston Borough Council granted the University of Leicester Honorary...

NASA Mars Rover set for touchdown on Red Planet

Space scientists around the world will hold their breath on Thursday as NASA’s latest mission to Mars attempts a daring landing on the Red...

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