March 23 marked one year since the first lockdown in the UK following the global outbreak of COVID-19 which has affected everyone’s lives in innumerable ways. Here, a retrospective on some of the main contributions by the University to overcome the disease are highlighted.

A systematic study involving the University of Bristol aims to better understand how to treat long COVID, which affects around 10 per cent of those who get the virus.

The B.1.1.7 variant of COVID-19, first detected in Kent, has been found to be between 30 and 100 per cent more deadly than previous strains.

Are you between the ages 0 to 19, or do you have a younger sibling or child in this age range? Do you live in the Bristol area? Bristol Children’s Vaccine Centre is looking for volunteers for a study seeing how well vaccines are working for children across the UK.

A meta-analysis of 52 published studies has found that Intensive Care Units (ICU) mortality rates due to COVID-19 have significantly decreased since the start of the pandemic, though improvements are now beginning to plateau.