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Jahirur Rahmn, aged 62, receives the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine inside the bespoke Ford Transit. Photo: John Nguyen/PA Wire The NHS in Essex has teamed up with Ford roll out a mobile vaccination initiative across the county, reaching those who might face barriers to accessing traditional healthcare services. The UK vaccine rollout has seen the fifth most doses administered anywhere in the world; 19 out of 20 people aged 50 and over have already chosen to take up the offer, which remains available. However, uptake is lower among some communities facing access challenges. Such as those experiencing homelessness, ethnically diverse communities, travelling communities and unregistered patients.
Ocean Signal Triples Size of Factory Facilities to Meet Production Demands
Ocean Signal has tripled the size of its business footprint to support accelerated growth plans, meet increasing production demands and strengthen the company’s capabilities to launch the next generation of communication and survival products to the market.
The safety at sea specialist has completed the move into a new 19,200 square foot factory at its Margate, UK, headquarters, significantly boosting production capacity as it steps up operations to escalate distribution volumes to a global network of dealers and partners.
In addition to investing in the expansion in factory space, Ocean Signal has almost doubled the number of company personnel in the past four years. A strong research and development team has been established to build on the department’s reputation for creating the most compact, user-friendly and technologically advanced devices available and launching further industry-leading innovati
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The U.S. Drought Monitor reports the entire state is now abnormally dry.
Areas of northwest South Dakota are in extreme drought. That includes all of Corson County and the surrounding area.
State climatologist Laura Edwards says current conditions are partially due to an extremely dry spring.
“We have areas such as Lemmon, South Dakota that have reported zero measurable rainfall in March. This is a critical time for our landscape for lawns and gardens for farming and we re losing a lot of that moisture here across the landscape.”
Edwards says low soil moisture increases fire concerns. In the past few weeks, several wildfires have burned thousands of acres in western South Dakota.