13 Oct, 2020 @ 16:55
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Spain’s Granada shuts down university to fight COVID-19 resurgence but stops short at closing down city

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THE University of Granada has been ordered to suspend all in-person teaching for the next two weeks in a bid to keep down coronavirus figures.

The Junta has also decreed that night schools or colleges must close by 10pm and that any higher education centre which has seen a positive test result among staff or students will be screened for more cases.

Despite registering an incidence rate of 501 cases per 100,000, Junta spokesman Elias Bendodo told press today that the city ‘does not meet the criteria’ to be closed down.

However to make sure ‘it is not closed in two weeks’, Bendodo said action had to be taken at the university, which has detected 150 infections across seven different residences in the past few days.

All the specific measures relating to university and higher education centres will be detailed in a decree.

The decree will be published later today or very early on Wednesday, and will be effective from tomorrow.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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