Going to university this autumn was never going to be straightforward. But in Manchester, England, over 1,700 college students have found themselves locked into their residence halls because of an outbreak of the coronavirus. It’s one of 40 universities in Britain reporting cases of the coronavirus just a couple of weeks after colleges reopened. The World’s Orla Barry joins host Marco Werman from London.
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