closure of close-contact personal services including spas would only potentially reduce the rate of transmission by “up to 0.05 percent.” Demonstrating that such facilities pose little risk, since reopening government and SAGE reports have found no evidence to suggest personal services such as salons and spas have a high rate of infection. "We already knew we were low risk, it has been our argument from the start," says Helena Grzesk, General Manager of the UK Spa Association (UKSA). "0.05 percent is an incredibly low number in terms of what our potential risk is to public health and this is reassuring."Being an already hygiene-obsessed industry that was more than familiar with PPE pre-Covid, the recent statistic present the safe operation.