Positive Health PH Online Issue 271 is scheduled to be published live on 10 June 2021, merely 11 days before Stage 4 of the Road Map Recovery Plan – opening up and easing restrictions of the coronavirus lockdown – scheduled for 21 June. However, as appears to be par for the course with pandemics, the latest so-called Nepal variant – a mutant of the Indian or Delta variant has yet to be characterized regarding its transmissibility, and whether it will escape the vaccines thus far dispensed into the arms of more than 50% of the UK adult population.

As we publish Positive Health PH Online Issue 270 29 April 2021, the world is bearing witness to the ferocious wave of Coronavirus in India, with the official death toll believed to have surpassed 200,000 deaths. Hence, despite current improvements in Covid in the UK and other countries, we must be vigilant and heed the warning “Nobody is safe until Everyone is safe”.