Scottish students are being threatened with a strict ‘red and yellow card’ system for breaking Covid-19 rules as they’re banned from parties and pubs.
It comes as at least a dozen universities in England and Wales have set up their own testing facilities, as outbreaks are reported on 17 UK campuses.
Up to 125 students have contacted coronavirus across three universities in Edinburgh in another blow for Scottish universities after outbreaks in Glasgow, Dundee, Fife and Aberdeen.
Institutions have said they will make it ‘absolutely clear’ for those studying that parties will not be tolerated – as a SAGE scientist warned students could be kept on campus over Christmas where outbreaks occur.
Sir Mark Walport told BBC Radio 4′s Today programme: ‘The one thing that we don’t want is for an outbreak of coronavirus in a university to then result in students going home and spreading that infection to other parts of the country and other communities, to their parents, to their grandparents.
‘If students are infected when it comes near how to use amiibo cards acnl the end of term they may have to remain where they are.’
At least 362 cases of coronavirus have been diagnosed among the UK’s student population, but none of them are thought to have been hospitalised by the virus.
Around 600 students are self-isolating at Glasgow University, which has set up its own mobile testing unit, while students are warned not to attend parties and pubs this weekend
At least a dozen other universities in England and Wales have brought in their own testing facilities to monitor for potential outbreaks
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