Roy McLoughlin: This will end

'The light at the end of the tunnel'

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No Virus Anymore Day (NoVAD): How it came about and why it is so important

The coronavirus crisis has changed our lives beyond recognition and is causing health and economic havoc which will have a long-lasting legacy in a way that none of us could have imagined. The analogy of ‘war' has been used by politicians and commentators around the globe, which led me to start thinking inwardly to our protection industry. World War II was the most devastating conflict that history had delivered, but it did, as we all know, finish, and this was celebrated by the naming of a day (or technically two days) in the form of VE (and VJ Day). It is important to remember th...

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