Student isolating with Covid-19 asked University of Manchester for help with getting food supplies... he was 'shocked and left in panic' at the response

University of Manchester halls of residence. Police were called to the university's Fallowfield campus at around 5pm on October 8.Finn Kitson, 19, was pronounced dead at the scene.Officers were initially called to 'a report of concern for the welfare of a man at a property off Moseley Road', GMP said.The force said Mr Kitson's death was not being treated as suspicious.Manchester Coroners' Court confirmed a file has been received regarding Mr Kiston's death.

hereIn a statement from the university also issued on behalf of the student's family Dr Simon Merrywest, director for the student experience at the University of Manchester, said the tragedy wasn't Covid-19-related.He said: "We can confirm that very sadly one of our students was found deceased in their hall of residence at around 5pm on Thursday, October 8."We are providing all possible support to their family and friends and our utmost sympathies go out to them."The family have asked us to make

Bury line between Manchester city centre, north Manchester and Bury.

still has one of the highest infection rates in England after several outbreaks among the student population. One student told the Guardian a "Covid Positive" party in one halls of residence in Fallowfield was broken up by security on Saturday.

A payment scheme which will support self-isolating residents who are unable to work from home has been launched in Manchester where cases remain at a ‘precarious level’.Those who are eligible for the scheme will receive a one-off support payment of £500 to cover living costs while staying at home to limit the spread of Covid-19.As of September 28 anyone who has tested positive for the virus, or has been contacted by the national test and trace service, is now required by law to self-isolate.But

with each other rather than, for example, being linked to any obvious large workplace outbreak.

vowed to do as much as they can to help the 1,500 MMU students isolating in halls.But Priya is not the only student or parent in Manchester to have struggled to find help.First year student Molly Chambers described a similar situation at Oak House in Fallowfield.She says isolating students have feared leaving their flats to use the communal laundry facilities outside and have been washing clothes in the bath."I've been bringing food to people, picking up post, but it's very difficult when you're

Manchester Evening News.Pupils will be able to return on October 15 according to guidance from Public Health England.

hereA judge said Ayoola may have obtained the false document from someone who worked in insurance.Now Ayoola, from Middleton, has avoided jail after admitting perverting the course of justice.Manchester Crown Court heard that the original driving offences happened on April 21 last year.After being charged he was ordered to attend a hearing at Manchester Magistrates Court, where he gave prosecutors a document which stated he was insured on that date.At a crown court sentencing hearing on

t it would be offering students a two-week rent rebate and a £50 grocery gift card for those affected, as well as access to emergency cleaning and toiletry supplies.

The decision to ask hundreds of students at Manchester Met University to stay in lockdown has been brewing for more than a month.As far back as August, Manchester's public health team agreed a ten-point plan for the next stage of the coronavirus pandemic that included a specific clause on universities.While outbreaks at primary and secondary schools made the headlines earlier in September, officials have always been concerned that the return of university students would become a major

Manchester Evening News online learning would remain in place for a fortnight.

here"We apologise for the message sent to our students last night about posters in windows, it didn't reflect the University's view," the tweet read."We respect the rights of students to express themselves, but as requested by Greater Manchester Police the posters must not break the law or they'll have to be removed."Students said the first they knew of the lockdown at the halls of residents was when security guards appeared at the front gates.Megan Tingey, 19, is a fresher at Birley.She tested

reported last weekend that a number of students were already self isolating at the Birley campus, in Hulme, days after a 100-strong party was reported in the courtyard.Since then, case numbers have soared to 127 across that site and Cambridge Halls, with a number of other students also recording symptoms.

hereThis was the equivalent of around 22 per cent of the nearly 6.1 million FTE sickness days lost during the period across all staff groups in the NHS in England.The data showed that during the peak of the outbreak in April there were 690,569 FTE days lost due to Covid-19 - 30.6 per cent of the nearly 2.3 million absences recorded that month.At Stockport NHS Trust, more than a quarter (27.6 per cent) of sick days lost were Covid-19-related, the highest proportion locally.Both Stockport NHS

a fifth of the region's schools (247) have had confirmed cases - among either pupils, staff or both. At one secondary - Philips High in Whitefield, Bury - there have been 18 positive tests and the whole of Year 11 has been sent home.