Delivery of the Covid vaccine will not be disrupted by France temporarily closing its borders to the UK amid fears over a new strain of the virus, the Transport Secretary has said.
Speaking to Sky News this morning, Grant Shapps promised the disruption around the Channel ports in Kent ‘won’t have an impact on the vaccination programme’.
He said: ‘Most vaccine doesn’t come via what is called “Ro-Ro”, roll-on, roll-off, which is what we are talking about here. In other words, it’s not usually accompanied by a driver, by a haulier. It comes on those containers.
‘To put this into context, there are about 6,000 vehicles we would expect, just under in Dover today, probably 4,000 would have gone across from Dover, just under about 2,000 on the Eurotunnel.
‘#But there is probably something like 32,000 units that would have been the daily total, so the vast majority – including virtually all the vaccine – actually comes via container and there are good supplies in the meantime. So this won’t have an impact on the vaccination programme.’
This is a breaking news story, more to follow soon…
Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@metro.co.uk.
For more stories like this, check our news page.
source https://metro.co.uk/2020/12/21/delivery-of-covid-vaccine-wont-be-disrupted-as-european-borders-close-13783170/