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A happy new year to all our readers as we welcome you to the January issue of Tomorrow’s Health and Safety.
As all four UK nations find themselves in a third lockdown of some sorts, it feels for many as though we are in a similar predicament to the one we found ourselves in in March 2020. The new variant identified in December has stormed through London and the South East, and at the time of writing, there are warnings that some of London’s hospitals may be overwhelmed in the next fortnight.
Despite this awfully grim outlook, there is a lighthouse in the storm. The UK has now officially given approval to two vaccines (Pfitzer BioNTech and Oxford AstraZeneca) with a rollout that began in December. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has set a target of two million doses to be delivered to the elderly and clinically vulnerable per week over the next month and a half. We should know over the course of the next fortnight whether that target is reachable.
The sooner the more vulnerable sections of the population have been vaccinated, the sooner the country has the opportunity to return to some form of normality, although the virus itself has become endemic and will circulate like any other seasonal virus for years and decades to come.
It all happened at once of course, as these things tend to. Whilst the government grappled with a COVID-19 second wave, the UK/EU transition period also came to an end on 31 December. With it brings a host of changes. In this issue, Satra takes a look at one of these changes: a move away from the European CE mark for PPE towards the United Kingdom Conformity Assessed (UKCA) Mark. You can find out more on page 30.
Elsewhere, we look at Noise Monitoring & Acoustic Solutions, Working at Height and Floor Safety. We also have a round-up of the latest news and recent product launches. It’s good to have you all back with us.
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