VACCINE SHIPMENTS STRENGTHEN ALREADY EXISTING STRONG RELATIONSHIPS

Wednesday, February 10, 2021 - 11:07

by KARIM SCHEMBRI

Monday evening saw Gibraltar’s 4th shipment of vaccines. The RAF A400 Aircraft brought 14,000 doses of the vaccine around 7pm. I caught up with Warrant Officer Greg Saunders to find out some information on the shipment and the collaboration between the British forces and the Gibraltarian Government.


The vaccination programme has been collaboration with the RAF, the MOD and the Gibraltarian government. Greg described the smooth process as if it was ‘the old analogy of ducks on the river’. He mentioned ‘it looks smooth because it should look smooth but there’s been a furious amount of leg paddling by agencies back in the UK’. The work in the UK ranges from ‘arranging delivery time, arranging the aircraft which it will be transported on’; prior to the aircraft arriving he mentioned to me that he was ‘hopeful in terms of the weather not being so bad’. Evidently previous vaccines deliveries have had to contend with the weather, so it everything needs to be ‘married up perfectly in order to make it look smooth’. He also stated that ‘a great deal of leg work gone into the background’.

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