Grim news of four Covid deaths tempers joy of vaccine rollout
Nurses prepare to vaccinate residents at Hillsides on Sunday. 10th January 2021
Gibraltar recorded four Covid-related deaths on Sunday, tempering euphoria a day earlier following the arrival of the first shipment of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines from the UK.
The vaccine offers hope of a way out of the public health crisis that has upturned community life since last March.
The vaccination program started early on Sunday and will be rolled out in the coming days to frontline healthcare staff and the elderly.
But even as the Gibraltar Health Authority began vaccinating, the promise of hope came with a grim reminder that Gibraltar cannot escape the threat posed by Covid-19 to communities around the globe.