All people living in Greater Manchester and Lancashire are now advised to “minimise travel” due to fears over the Indian Delta Covid variant, though Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham has told people not to cancel trips because of the new guidelines. The Government hopes to tackle the Delta strain with a “strengthened package of support”, focusing particularly on additional Covid testing. The Mirror has the story.
The Government’s Covid advice was updated today, to expand the areas advised to only travel in and out of the area if necessary.
At the end of May, the Government faced criticism after it updated guidance for people in Bedford, Blackburn and Darwen, Bolton, Burnley, Kirklees, Leicester, Hounslow, and North Tyneside, where the India variant had started to surge.
The information was posted in an online update at Gov.uk on May 21st but it was not accompanied by an official announcement.
Today, the areas covered by the guidance were updated to include the Greater Manchester Combined Authority… and Lancashire County Council…
Asked about the change, the Prime Minister’s official spokesman said: “The Health Secretary has talked about that in the House.
“He wants to provide the package of support that has been effective in Bolton to a wider area, so that’s Greater Manchester and all of Lancashire County Council, to tackle the cases of the Delta variant.”
After the advice was updated, Health Secretary Matt Hancock told MPs: “I can tell the House that today working with local authorities, we are providing a strengthened package of support based on what’s working in Bolton, to help Greater Manchester and Lancashire tackle the rise in the Delta variant that we’re seeing there.
“This includes rapid response teams, putting in extra testing, military support and supervised in-school testing. I want to encourage everyone in Manchester and Lancashire to get the tests on offer.”…
Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham told locals not to cancel trips because of the new guidance.
“It’s very important to keep a sense of proportion,” he told a press conference today.
“This is guidance… it is not a lockdown, it is not a ban.”
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“and demanded that she hand over all of and demanded that she hand over all of her interview and survey data and delete any copies of it, before making her redundant on March 31st, despite her claiming she has a permanent contract. F and survey data and delete any copies of it, before making her redundant on March 31st, despite her claiming she has a permanent contract.”
I do hope this lady had the sense to keep paper copies of all her work before deleting the on-line variety. After all with all these computer hackers about you can’t be too careful and she wouldn’t want anyone putting out falsified copies of her work would she?
Better safe than sorry.
Always have off-site backups, and backups of those backups.
Hopefully, she has kept copies of all of the data.
I commented under that article quoting City University of London:
“At City, we have a legal obligation to protect freedom of expression that we take very seriously. We uphold academic freedom of inquiry in our education and research and are committed to ensuring that free and open-minded discussion can take place.”
This is calling black white. Quite literally and without hyperbole, insanity.
She should submit a subject access request to see what her colleagues have been saying about her on e-mails, and other work related media. SARS win cases.
Excellent point.
Modern universities are teaching people how to be stupid
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Freedom of people to voice different opinions than the authorities is closing.
The University seems to think all Intellectual property belongs to them. Maybe that is the contractual arrangement, but to demand that it is deleted in all forms is not a proper use of such property. It is censorship plain and simple. Absolute proof that the content shows exactly what they don’t want, that this gender nonsense is nothing bbut harmful, severely dangerous dogma!
Leaks happen.
Anyone is allowed to do research but the findings must conform to the authorities ideology, otherwise there will be consequences.