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Coronavirus (Covid-19) information

Our thoughts are with all who are affected by the Coronavirus. We are working hard to ensure we keep you up to date with news from Lancaster University.

Latest updates from campus

We're working to protect the health and wellbeing of our University community. Find the latest information on our response to the outbreak, including Public Health England advice and support available to our staff and students.

Last reviewed: 3 August 2021

National restrictions are being reduced following the Government’s Roadmap out of lockdown, with some campus safety measures remaining for staff and students.
A Travel and Test Support Package is available to new and returning students who are travelling to the UK to start or continue their course in 2021-22.
Guidance on returning to campus is available for staff.
Lancaster has been added to the government’s list of areas where the new COVID-19 ‘Delta’ variant is spreading. To help stop the spread, you should take particular caution when meeting anyone outside your household or support bubble. Find out more on gov.uk.
Students and staff who are on campus should arrange twice-weekly asymptomatic testing. Staff can book their tests through the asymptomatic testing page. Students can book tests through a separate page.

Lancaster University's response to the pandemic

Information for enquirers, applicants and offer holders

Information for staff, students and parents

Covid-19 statistics for Lancaster University

Get the latest on new positive test results of Covid-19 reported to us by students and staff based at our Lancaster University UK campus.

Covid-19 statistics

Our response to Covid-19

We're proud of our staff and students for their resilience and hard work throughout the pandemic, we want to share just some of the ways our staff and students are supporting communities with their research, expertise and time.

Some of our Covid-19 related research.

Our research continues to help inform the response to the Covid-19 crisis.

Lancaster experts advise Government on life beyond Covid.

Our academics advise the Government on the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic will be in the next two to five years.

Supporting our communities

We're proud to be supporting our communities in many different ways during the pandemic

The Faculty of Health and Medicine

Find out about how Staff and students in our Faculty of Health and Medicine have been responding to the pandemic.

Connecting Kids: Project in a Box

We’ve been working hand in hand with teachers and community partners to deliver internet and technology provision for secondary school children, learning resources for primary school children and mentoring support across both secondary and primary schools.

Vaccinations in the Health Innovation Campus

Listen to interviews with Professor Jo Rycroft-Malone, Dr Rahul Keith of Lancaster Medical Practice, and Eric Bevan, one of the first people to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.

Professor Jo Rycroft-Malone Interview

Listen to BBC Radio Lancashire's Tim Padfield interview Professor Jo Rycroft-Malone about the partnership that made possible the delivery of the coronavirus vaccine at the Health Innovation Campus.

Dr Rahul Keith Interview

BBC Radio Lancashire's Tim Padfield interviews Dr Rahul Keith from Lancaster Medical Practice about delivery of the coronavirus vaccine.

Eric Bevan Interview

Tim Padfield from BBC Radio Lancashire interviews Eric Bevan, 92, one of the first people to receive the new Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine.

Public Lectures

Our popular Public Lectures Series has moved online, with a current focus on highlighting academic responses and contributions relating to life during the pandemic and beyond.

There are currently no public lectures scheduled. But you can watch recorded sessions of the series.

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You can read more about othe ways in which we are supporting our communities by taking a look at our civic response pages.

Civic response

COVID-19 Response Programme: Recovery & Resilience

New peer-learning online programme specifically designed to support SME leaders in Lancashire & Cumbria following the Coronavirus pandemic.

COVID-19 Response Programme

News

Rolls Royce high speed cameras used to analyse the spread of aerosol droplets from covid patients in operating theatres

Lancaster statistician part of study to make operating theatres safer during the pandemic

A Lancaster University statistician is playing an important role in a pioneering research study, which aims to make operating theatres safer places during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.

Spanish Flu research shows local pandemic outbreaks can occur over extended period

New research from Lancaster University Management School and the University of Glasgow into the long-term effects of the Spanish Flu pandemic offers lessons for the potential consequences of Covid-19.

Lancaster experts advise Government on Life Beyond Covid

Nine Lancaster academics were among 350 experts from across the UK who have been telling the Government what they think the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic will be in the next two to five years.

Dear Diary: Life under Lockdown recorded by people across the North-West

Lancaster University researchers from the Applied Research Collaboration North West Coast (ARC NWC) have published a series of research ‘bites’ providing insight into daily life under lockdown.

A female retail worker stacking a shelf in a supermarket

Work Foundation report calls for Government to mitigate crisis facing retail workers

A new report from the Work Foundation reveals the extent of insecurity within the retail sector and calls on Government to intervene and mitigate the crisis facing hundreds of thousands of workers.

A young girl watering plants in Ethiopia while wearing a face mask to protect against Covid-19.

Survey analyses effects of Covid-19 on young people around the world

Lancaster University's Dr Catherine Porter is part of the Young Lives at Work programme, which has found Covid-19 is exacerbating the effects of poverty on young people around the world.

The Small Business Leadership Programme descriptive graphic. Developing leaders to drive: Resilience, Productivity, Growth

Lancaster University joins Government partnership to support businesses hit by Covid-19

Lancaster University Management School is working with the Small Business Charter (SBC) to deliver a specialised government funded programme for leaders of small businesses to survive and thrive in the coming months and post Covid-19.

Tell us how Covid-19 has changed the way you socialise

With social distancing restrictions easing across the UK, researchers at Lancaster University have launched a UK wide survey to find out how the Covid-19 pandemic is affecting social behaviour.

Government urgently needs to gauge public perception of new track and trace app

Governments urgently need to understand public priorities before they roll out track and trace, according to new research.

Research into palliative care for Covid-19

The International Observatory on End-of-Life Care at Lancaster University is involved in two new projects exploring aspects of palliative and end-of-life care.

Reduction in commercial flights due to COVID-19 leading to less accurate weather forecasts

Weather forecasts have become less accurate during the COVID-19 pandemic due to the reduction in commercial flights, according to new research led by Lancaster University.

James Eid - pictured at home (left) and in full PPE (right)

LUMS' student entrepreneur launches business to satisfy demand for face masks

An entrepreneurial student from Lancaster University has taken it upon himself to address the growing demand for face masks - by launching a business capable of producing hundreds of thousands a week.

Lancaster University students help county’s businesses find Covid-19 solutions

Lancashire businesses are benefitting from the fresh thinking and innovative ideas of sharp-minded business students as they tackle issues around the Covid-19 pandemic, business growth and development.

There are around 145,000 people diagnosed with the condition in the UK, with more than one million people affected as family members, friends or colleagues

A third of people with Parkinson’s have seen their health deteriorate in lockdown

A third of people with Parkinson’s have experienced increased symptoms during lockdown, according to a survey by Lancaster University and the charity Parkinson’s UK.

Dr Sophie England and Dr Emmanuella Adu-Peprah

Helping the NHS cope with Covid19

New doctors from Lancaster University are working across the NHS to help it cope with the pandemic.

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