Meningitis confirmed at University of Kent and three schools in outbreak that has killed two young people

Deaths of student and sixth-former named as Juliette announced as long queues for antibiotics form at Canterbury campus

Cases of invasive meningitis have been confirmed at the University of Kent and three schools in an outbreak that has killed two young people and left 11 others in hospital.

One of the young people to have died was a student at the University of Kent, while the second was a sixth-former at Queen Elizabeth’s grammar school (QEGS) in Faversham.