There’s no question that the roll out of Coronavirus vaccine in the UK has been a staggering success. This time last year, only the most optimistic would have thought that a vaccine would have been developed, and a large part of the UK population vaccinated, within a year. And yet figures published this week (May 23rd) show that in the UK, around 61 million doses of the vaccine have been administered already, and around 40% of the population is now fully vaccinated. 

It is a brilliant testimony to the hard work and skill of everybody involved; the scientists and technicians at Oxford University and AstraZeneca, and their counterparts around the world, the hard working NHS and armed forces teams managing a huge logistical exercise of getting the jab into people’s arms, and the legion of wonderful volunteers, helping out from Land’s End to John O’Groats to support the mission. 

The Prime Minister visited AstraZeneca recently, and we were delighted to see that most of the media coverage featured this picture of him changing the agar plate on an ImpactAir-140.

As a business, we believe in doing our bit to help wherever we can. We’re exceptionally proud of the modest part we’ve played in helping with vaccine development and manufacturing. All of the vaccine manufacturers are having to develop and manufacture at speed. When you’re manufacturing injectables at speed, you need to be 100% confident that the manufacturing environment is as clean as it can be, and you need to know that your environmental monitoring is on top of its game. It’s humbling and also a source of great pride, that when that is the case, people turn to Pinpoint Scientific.

We’ve been happy to see our ImpactAir products called into action, and we’re delighted that they continue to perform, delivering world class environmental monitoring wherever they are needed.

We believe there’s still some way to go in the battle with Coronavirus. We’re delighted that Pinpoint Scientific products have been part of the story, and we will work hard to make sure they continue to set the benchmark for environmental monitoring. As we do, we will continue to draw inspiration from the great work of everybody involved in the vaccination programme.

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