However, the Government has advised that you should remain in your term time accommodation wherever possible to minimise the risk of any transmission caused by large numbers people moving around the country.

Test to Protect

All students should be tested before travelling in order to protect family and loved ones. Please book ahead to ensure you can travel on your chosen date.

Book your test

Anyone who tests positive will be legally required to self-isolate for ten days and should not travel.

Everyone who returns to campus should also be tested to prevent spreading the virus among fellow students.

Please note the university’s test is not accredited for use as part of the government’s Test to Release scheme for international students or as part of the legally-required documentation to enable travel.

Students travelling to and from university should follow the coronavirus (Covid-19) safer travel guidance for passengers. This includes advice for using private or public transport and the measures you should undertake to keep everyone around you safe.

Changes to Testing Service over Easter

The university’s Asymptomatic Testing Service will be closed over the Easter Weekend (Friday 2 – Tuesday 6 April). In order to ensure full results are communicated prior to this closure, the last day to submit a sample will be Wednesday 31 March.

All students and staff who are on campus regularly are urged to take a test at least once a week until vaccines are widely deployed.

This will help keep you safe, protect loved ones and the wider community, and also help ensure that our university can remain open for essential teaching and research.

Don’t let vaccines stop your weekly test

You should continue to access weekly asymptomatic Covid-19 testing, even if you have been vaccinated.

Paddy Tighe, Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, and a member of the testing team said: “After having the vaccine it can take up to 21 days before you see a protective effect. Even when you’ve had the vaccine you can still catch Covid-19 and while it’s unlikely you’ll experience serious symptoms you can still pass the virus on. That’s why we all need to be careful, keep to the restrictions and keep testing.”

He explains more in the following video.