Universities in Birmingham have laid out their plans ahead of the government’s mission to send students home in time for Christmas. The universities will move all lectures online after 9th December and provide on campus testing for the students. As national lockdown is due to end tomorrow, a “student travel window” will be opened from the 3rd December to 9th December, in the government’s bid to get students home by 9th December. Credit: Mufin Majnun / Unsplash For those unable to go home – the government advised “to undertake a further period of restricted contact either before or after returning…
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A Covid-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech has shown evidence of being 90% effective against the virus. These results were based on the first analysis from Phase 3 of the trial. Developers have described it as a “victory for innovation, science and a global collaborative effort,” achieved “at a time when the world needs it most.” The vaccine was tested on 43,500 people in six countries and no safety concerns have been raised. The next step will be seeking regulatory review and emergency use authorisation. When will it be available? Pfizer and BioNTech plan to apply for emergency approval…
Around 500 women gathered in Birmingham’s Victoria Square to protest against the abortion legislation in Poland. The pro-choice protest came in response to the Polish Constitutional Tribunal’s ruling banning abortions where the foetus is malformed, which accounted for 98% of legal terminations last year. Photo by Jacek Wegrzyniak @pixeliseme The protest, held last Sunday, was mainly attended by young Polish. It mirrored similar demonstrations in the country’s capital, Warsaw – where over 100,000 people gathered to fight against the new regulation. Karolina Monika Schab, a Polish protester living in Birmingham, told Birmingham Eastside: “The government thinks that they can impose their religious…
More than 100,000 people have signed a petition to stop the deportation of Osime Brown, a 21 years old autistic man from Dudley in the West Midlands. After widespread media pressure, Brown was released from prison on Wednesday and returned to his family’s home. But the deportation order still remains. In 2018, Brown was imprisoned over the theft of a phone in a street robbery – which his family think was a false conviction. Brown now faces being deported to Jamaica, a country he left at the age of four and has no connection. Osime Brown (Credit: Change.org) Osime was…