THE government should stop the stream of students to campuses now rather than locking them down later, unions warned today amid rising Covid-19 outbreaks at universities. 

Health Secretary Matt Hancock suggested yesterday in an interview with Times Radio that students could face a ban on going home at Christmas if cases continue to rise. 

It follows another outbreak of Covid in Scotland where 124 students at the University of Glasgow tested positive for the virus, forcing 600 people into lockdown.