There were 21 new Covid infections found at Oxford University last week as students begin to travel home. 

Covering the seven days to Friday, December 4, the new positive tests were confirmed by the university's own testing service.

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This was from 103 tests and gave a weekly positivity rate of 20.4 per cent.

  • November 20-December 4: 21 cases
  • November 21-27: 21 cases
  • November 14-20: 40 cases
  • November 7-13: 126 cases
  • October 31 – November 6: 146 cases
  • October 24-30: 212 cases

There has been a total of 1,062 coronavirus cases at the university since it started testing on August 20.

Oxford Mail: Positive COVID-19 tests reported by the University's testing service in the 8 weeks up to 4 December 2020. Picture: Oxford UniversityPositive COVID-19 tests reported by the University's testing service in the 8 weeks up to 4 December 2020. Picture: Oxford University

There had previously been a problem with university tests being included in local figures but that was resolved last month. 

A student travel window is currently in place until Wednesday.

Government guidance states: "To ensure that students can be home at the end of the winter term but also reduce any transmission risk, the government is asking that students return home once the national restrictions have been lifted, in a student travel window lasting from 3 to 9 December."

Oxford University has been carrying out tests on students before they leave the city 

It's website states: "All students who leave Oxford during the Government’s Christmas Travel window from 3 to 9 December will be offered Christmas Travel Tests.

"These ‘Lateral Flow Tests’ (LFTs) will be offered in colleges as part of a University-wide programme.

"You will be asked to take two tests, three days apart before you leave Oxford."

Any student who tests positive will need to self-isolate and book a confirmatory test PCR test through the university.