After a dip in confirmed coronavirus cases yesterday, Salford now has 158 cases, up by 29 from the city's previous 129 figure. NHS England has also announced that three patients have sadly died at Salford Royal Hospital on 29th, 30th and 31st March.
Manchester currently has the highest number of virus cases in Greater Manchester with 195, followed by Stockport with 140, Trafford 126, Oldham 125, Rochdale 105, Tameside 94, Wigan 91, Bury 87 and Bolton 69.
If anyone needs help of any kind during the current crisis they can fill in an online form at Salford Council, either on their behalf or on behalf of someone else – click here for details.
Meanwhile, 2.7 million university students can now get free access to course textbooks, via the Free Student eTextbook Programme, or FSTP scheme. Kortext, the UK's leading learning platform and supplier of digital textbooks, in partnership with Jisc, Microsoft and a host of supporting publishers, has offered all 180 universities in the UK and Ireland free access to critical textbook content until the end of June.
"The FSTP will especially benefit the country's growing number of underprivileged students, who rely heavily upon library resources" states the company "2019 saw the highest number of young people from the most disadvantaged backgrounds across the UK confirm a place at a university or college - accounting for, for the first time, more than a fifth of all places."
The textbook programme includes thousands of titles brought together by supporting publishers including Pearson Education, McGraw Hill, Cengage, Taylor and Francis, Wiley, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press and SAGE Publishing.
"We are delighted to be supporting this programme" says Anthony Salcito, Vice President, Education with Microsoft which is supporting the initiative through its Azure cloud platform "At this time of campus closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the most disadvantaged students are the ones that suffer the most from being unable to access their University library. As such, moving key learning content online through Kortext and supporting an entire sector in this way is directly aligned to Microsoft's Vision of empowering every student on the planet to achieve more."
For more information see the Free Student eTextbook Programme (FSTP) website via Kortext – click here
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