COVID-19

In a report released on Tuesday 2nd June, Public Health England confirmed death rates to be highest amongst Black and Minority Ethnic groups. According to the Office of National Statistics, Black people were up to four times more likely to die of COVID-19, whilst Asians are about twice as likely...

Upon listening to the Prime Minister’s speech on Sunday evening, I experienced a brief moment of euphoria at the prospect of my 6-year-old stepbrother returning to school in June as part of the phased return of pupils. This moment was short lived, however, as I started to question –...

There are many factors which make it difficult to accurately compare the responses of individual countries to the global COVID-19 pandemic, such as population size and population density. However, there have been undeniable shortcomings in the US, whilst Taiwan is a textbook case study of how to cope in...

In a speech on Sunday evening, Boris Johnson unveiled a "conditional plan" to restart the economy and ease lockdown restrictions in England. ...

Impact’s 2019/2020 committee comes together to compose a poem about what we’ve been up to during the Coronavirus lockdown.
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Vital work from virologists at the University of Nottingham has uncovered parts of the novel coronavirus which they believe could form a vaccine and prevent the further spread of the virus. ...

With Easter, Passover and Ramadan commencing, people of faith have been reminded to follow government advice and to celebrate at home. As the good weather is set to continue, religious leaders have been exploring new ways of delivering their sermons online, in an effort to persuade people not to...