The deliveries are being provided to Gibraltar by the UK Government as part of its programme to supply the Overseas Territories.
4,875 doses of the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine will arrive in Gibraltar, via the RAF, tomorrow Wednesday 20th January. A further 6,825 doses will then follow ten days later, also via the RAF.
BREAKING: Government confirms: 4,875 doses of the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine will arrive in Gibraltar, via the RAF, tomorrow Wednesday 20th January. A further 6,825 doses will then follow ten days later, also via the RAF. pic.twitter.com/QRQknRUpQp
— Your Gibraltar TV (@YourGibraltarTV) January 19, 2021
According to a statement from the Government of Gibraltar earlier in the month:
“Her Majesty’s Government of Gibraltar is delighted to announce that the first delivery of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Saturday 9 January 2021. Upon arrival, the vaccine will be immediately be taken directly to dedicated freezers in the basement of St Bernard’s Hospital and kept at -75 degrees centigrade. This first delivery is being provided to Gibraltar by the UK Government as part of its programme to supply the Overseas Territories, as such the methodology of delivery is the same as it is in the UK.
A 5850 doses of the vaccine will be received in this first delivery. The second delivery of the vaccine is expected by the end of January. The aim to have vaccinated all over 70s with at least one dose by mid February, assuming that the vaccines arrive as planned.”
The vaccination programme for the public in Gibraltar commenced on Monday 11th January and is at the former Primary Care Centre at the ICC.
Great! Hopefully we can do more of this to all overseas territories. Presume smaller places will have to wait until we get Oxford Vaccine in bigger numbers. St Helena and Falklands next?
Biden said that development of the vaccine should be slowed when he was campaigning last year and that he doesn’t trust it, yet he was one of the first people in the world to demand and get it. What a wanker.
Fake News again from you again!
It is You that is speaking of your self here!
Agreed.