Like many campuses, my own workplace has been hit by a wave of Covid-19 infections during the latest wave.
This term has seen colleagues scrambling to cover for sick colleagues across all functions of the university, from teaching to accommodation, technical and professional services functions.
Students too have been hit by the current wave with a persistent drip of emails about missing class from students with “flu” or Covid. There are also more serious stories – students unable to find lateral flow tests, the hospitalisation of a student, students with long Covid struggling to attend classes. These are not the waves of Covid-19 transmission that hit university campuses in 2020 or 2021 but it has not gone away.
