Telling students not to socialise not exactly working . . . after illicit Freshers Week parties 770 students have tested positive so far at Northumbria University.

The apocryphal story about Northumbria is that it was going to be called the Central University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne until somebody realised the acronym.

Remarkably despite that outbreak and also major ones in Manchester and other universities, cases are going back down now in England. So outside of universities the "rule of 6" and 10pm pub curfew seems to be working.