BBC News
By Paul Adams
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When UK government ministers pledged to inoculate all British adults by the autumn, they may not have been thinking about people living in some of the world s most remote places.
And yet, since early January, by plane, ship and - in one case - supermarket freezer truck, that s exactly what s been happening.
Officials say 250,000 vaccine doses have already been administered to adults in 11 of the 14 British Overseas Territories.
Some of those places, like Gibraltar, Bermuda and the Cayman Islands, are easy to reach.
Others require epic journeys.
A mission to supply the 200 citizens of the gloriously named Edinburgh of the Seven Seas, on the volcanic island of Tristan da Cunha, was a case in point.
HMS FORTH travels to Tristan da Cunha to deliver coronavirus vaccines. MOD Crown Copyright.
For the first time, the Royal Navy assisted the RAF and Strategic Command in a 6-day operation this month to the isolated South Atlantic island community.
An RAF Voyager aircraft made the 8,000 mile trip from RAF Brize Norton to the Falkland Islands, via Dakar in Senegal to refuel, before HMS Forth sailed the 2,000 mile voyage to Tristan da Cunha.
Delivered on behalf of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and Crown Agents, enough doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine have now been delivered to the island to cover the entire adult population.
Royal Navy and RAF combine efforts to deliver vaccines to world’s most remote Overseas Territory
UK Armed Forces have transported coronavirus vaccines to the Overseas Territory of Tristan da Cunha – the most remote inhabited island in the world.
From: HMS FORTH travels to Tristan da Cunha to deliver coronavirus vaccines. MOD Crown Copyright.
For the first time, the Royal Navy assisted the RAF and Strategic Command in a 6-day operation this month to the isolated South Atlantic island community.
An RAF Voyager aircraft made the 8,000 mile trip from RAF Brize Norton to the Falkland Islands, via Dakar in Senegal to refuel, before HMS Forth sailed the 2,000 mile voyage to Tristan da Cunha.
HMS FORTH travels to Tristan da Cunha to deliver coronavirus vaccines. MOD Crown Copyright.
For the first time, the Royal Navy assisted the RAF and Strategic Command in a 6-day operation this month to the isolated South Atlantic island community.
An RAF Voyager aircraft made the 8,000 mile trip from RAF Brize Norton to the Falkland Islands, via Dakar in Senegal to refuel, before HMS Forth sailed the 2,000 mile voyage to Tristan da Cunha.
Delivered on behalf of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and Crown Agents, enough doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine have now been delivered to the island to cover the entire adult population.