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Chief Minister Fabian Picardo yesterday met with a team of officials from the UK Home Office Border Force International who are in Gibraltar to advise on border management.
The team have been in Gibraltar since Monday as part of contin.
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PUBLIC health chiefs have allowed further easing of restrictions to go ahead as Gibraltar reported no active COVID-19 cases among residents today.
Chief Minister Fabian Picardo announced the news everyone was waiting for this afternoon along with Minister for Health Samantha Sacramento.
There are still two self-isolated cases in Gibraltar who are visitors and two non-residents who are also positive but no-one locally in hospital.
As a result, the government will now allow people to get together in public areas without any limits on numbers from April 16.
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Boris Johnson has himself highlighted the success of Gibraltar s astutely-named Operation Freedom
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Gibraltar records two weeks without Covid cases in hospital or ERS
Pic: Eyleen Gomez
Gibraltar has recorded two weeks with no hospitalised cases of Covid-19.
The news comes against the backdrop of a major vaccine rollout programme that has so far seen 60,907 jabs of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine administered.
A total of 32,293 people have received at least one dose of the vaccine, while 28,614 of those have had both their jabs.
The last Covid-19 cases in St Bernard’s Hospital or the Elderly Residential Services were recorded on March 21 and March 2 respectively.
The Minister for Health, Samantha Sacramento, said: “It is a great relief to be able to announce this news.”