The Learning and Research Resources Centre (CRAI) is only open for loans and the URV’s sporting activities have been postponed
Coronavirus
In all the site
The new measure agreed by the Catalan universities will not affect research activity
This has been established in the URV’s Contingency Plan for the 2020-21 academic year, which stipulates how all members of the URV community must act in order to prevent the spread of the disease on its campuses
09/06/2020
Living through the pandemic away from home
International students who have remained in Tarragona and local students who have not been able to return home at the end of their studies abroad describe their lockdown experiences
Large scale testing of the device is underway; in only 15 minutes and with just a single pinprick of blood it can determine with 100% reliability if a person has the disease or if they have developed antibodies to it
A study by the URV’s Cheminformatics and Nutrition research group has shown that an anti-inflammatory drug for humans and another for animals inhibit a key enzyme in the replication and transcription of the COVID-19 virus. The results of the work have been validated by the initiative COVIDMoonshot which has carried out in vitro studies and assessed their bioactivity. The results have been published in the “International Journal of Molecular Sciences”
The aim is to develop a serological test within 3 months that takes only 15 minutes to differentiate between patients that have the virus and those who have already has it
Almost 170 current and former students from the URV’s degrees in Medicine and Nursing form part of staff at healthcare centres, after being contracted to help relieve the pressure on healthcare professionals during the Covid-19 pandemic
Classes will finish in accordance with the academic calendar but the assessment period will be extended until 16 July for students who are not undergoing continuous assessment and for subjects that cannot be assessed online
31/03/2020
URV information on COVID-19
All buildings and facilities are closed until further notice. Teaching and assessments will continue at a distance, as far as possible (last update: 03/04/2020)