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CANCELLED: Royal Holloway’s Science Festival – Saturday 7 March

CANCELLED: Royal Holloway’s Science Festival – Saturday 7 March

  • Date05 March 2020

Royal Holloway has cancelled its annual Science Festival which was due to take place at its Egham campus on Saturday 7 March.

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The university has taken the decision to cancel the event as a precaution, after the Chief Medical Officer advised this morning [1] that the government has moved to ‘delay’ phase measures to slow the spread of coronavirus.

Professor Paul Layzell, Principal of Royal Holloway, said: “The health and well-being of our students, staff and our community is of utmost importance to us.

“Whilst we are disappointed to cancel our annual Science Festival, we feel it is the right decision to take as a precautionary measure after the Chief Medical Officer advised that the government has moved into the next phase to help slow the spread of coronavirus.

“We continue to monitor the outbreak of coronavirus and are following advice from Public Health England and the National Health Service (NHS).

“At this time, all other activity at Royal Holloway continues as normal and we are ensuring that our students and staff are aware of the government’s advice about coronavirus.”



[1] Professor Chris Witty was speaking to MPs on the health and social care committee on 5 March 2020.

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