British Overseas Territories: Coronavirus
(asked on 27th May 2021) - View Source
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what proportion of UK Overseas Territory residents have received a (a) first dose and (b) both doses of a covid-19 vaccine, by territory.
The UK Government has committed to supply COVID-19 vaccines for the people of the Overseas Territories. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) have been arranging deliveries and vaccines have now been delivered to all 12 permanently inhabited Territories, most recently the Pitcairn Islands and Tristan da Cunha, but also to South Georgia. Further deliveries are anticipated to complete the programmes over the coming weeks. The table below represents the percentage of the adult population in each to receive first and second doses of the vaccines.
Overseas Territory | 1ST DOSES As a % of adult population (as of 3 June) | 2ND DOSES As a % of adult population |
Anguilla | 83% | 51% |
Ascension | 98% | 90% |
Bermuda | 71% | 64% |
BVI | 47% | 22% |
Cayman Islands | 82% | 70% |
Falklands | 95% | 93% |
Gibraltar* | >90% | >90% |
Montserrat | 39% | 34% |
Pitcairn | 82% | 0% |
St Helena | 98% | 92% |
South Georgia | 100% | 0% |
TCI | 64% | 50% |
Tristan da Cunha | 90% | 0% |