Britain has ‘forgotten’ the Queen’s subjects in Commonwealth countries during its world-beating vaccine rollout, the Prime Minister of a Caribbean nation said last night. Dr Timothy Harris, the Premier of St Kitts and Nevis, criticised London for failing to put the countries at the head of the queue for surplus stocks. To date, just 3,509 people have received a vaccine dose out of St Kitts and Nevis’s 43,000 adults – with all of them supplied by India. ‘If Global Britain and the Commonwealth mean anything, it should mean the UK putting her closest and neediest friends at the front of the queue for the UK’s surplus vaccines. In addition, British Ministers said surplus vaccines from the UK programme will eventually be donated to poorer countries.

Source: Daily Mail March 07, 2021 01:30 UTC