Christmas cancelled in Gibraltar – the ‘most vaccinated’ place in the world

Gibraltar has cancelled official Christmas celebrations despite its high vaccination rate and relatively low number of infections.

The small British territory tightened Covid restrictions over the festive period following a spike in cases.

Residents have been urged to limit mixing as much as possible in new guidelines announced last Friday following a rise in cases.

Officials said they should “exercise their own judgement” on whether to hold Christmas events and it “strongly advises against” doing so in the next four weeks while the Covid booster scheme continues.

Despite administered vaccine doses of at least 94,469 so far which is enough to have fully vaccinated 140.2% of the country’s population, Gibraltar has seen cases increase with 66 new daily infections reported on average – equivalent to 52% of its peak in January.

Analysts and stakeholers say its obvious that vaccine passports don’t work because being vaccinated doesn’t stop the spread and the only way to get life back to normal is start treating it like flu and get on with life.

They also say positive test doesn’t mean illness. Hospitalisations and deaths should be the only metric.