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Steve Bruce has revealed that “a lot” of Newcastle United players have not been vaccinated against Covid and cited “conspiracy theories” as a reason why so many professional footballers are reluctant to get inoculated.
We’ve got a lot of players who haven’t had the jab. It’s their prerogative. We’ve had two or three players really sick with Covid here and Karl Darlow spent the best part of a week in hospital with it, so we’ve seen the severity of it first hand. But there are a lot of conspiracy theories out there.
I would urge everybody to get jabbed, and that’s the advice of this country’s top medics, but not everyone’s going to have the same opinion. If you get a group of 20 people you are not all going to have the same opinion.
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A specialist agricultural and veterinary nursing college has banned unvaccinated students from living on site, and warned they may have limited access to social events and clubs if they do not get a jab.
First reported in the Telegraph, Hartpury University and College in Gloucester is thought to be the first higher education institution in England to make vaccination mandatory for applicants.
Our expectation is that all eligible students will engage and take up their vaccinations as soon as they are given the opportunity. In order to benefit from the most effective protection against Covid-19, it’s a mandatory requirement that all eligible students in on-site residential accommodation will engage in the Covid-19 vaccination programme and have both doses of the vaccine when made available to them.
It’s highly likely that eligible students who aren’t vaccinated will be limited in terms of access to student social events and venues on the Hartpury campus, amongst other limitations. This is in line with the national picture, where vaccination proof may be required in the autumn for entertainment/hospitality for all adults.”
In order to benefit from the most effective protection against Covid-19, we require eligible students who wish to live in our campus residential accommodation to have the Covid-19 vaccinations, when these are made available to their age category.
Students who are not intending to engage with the vaccination programme will still be able to attend all of their in-person teaching on campus, but will not be able to reside in Hartpury on-site accommodation (unless they are exempt due to medical reasons).
Hartpury University will ban unvaccinated students from many parts of student living.
It’s a disgrace and those responsible at the University should be ashamed of themselves.