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Simon Kolstoe, Senior Lecturer in Evidence Based Healthcare and University Ethics Advisor, at the University of Portsmouth shares two simple tests for your face covering, to help you check it will avoid breathing potential infection [… read more ]
Local parent, researcher and writer, Maddie Wallace, continues her daily diary describing the experience first, of self-isolating, and now of being in lockdown with her children in Southsea. It’s day 37, and Maddie negotiates a home-schooling [… read more ]
Sarah Cheverton interviews Henry Pearce, senior lecturer in Law at the University of Portsmouth and Deputy Editor for Computer Law & Security, about the new NHS contact tracing app currently being trialled on the Isle [… read more ]
