A delivery of Covid vaccines has arrived in Antarctica to inoculate British researchers stationed in the polar wilderness, the UK foreign ministry said on Thursday. The shipment was delivered to the British Antarctic Survey’s Rothera Research Station, making the outpost the furthest destination in the British Overseas Territories to be supplied with jabs.
The AstraZeneca shots were flown from a Royal Air Force base in Britain via Senegal and the Falklands Islands before reaching the 23- member staff at the facility. The 16,000km journey across four continents concluded UK’s commitment to supply vaccines to all the inhabited UK Overseas Territories.The journey had to be carefully executed to ensure the trip was completed in under 92 hours, to avoid spoilage of the vaccines.
