The island has passed the 9,000 people vaccination mark, it was revealed last night.

Kim Wilson, the health minister, added 1,500 people had now had both doses of the coronavirus jab.

Ms Wilson said that the number of active Covid-19 cases had dropped below ten for the first time since the end of last October.

The news came as the Premier revealed the next shipment of vaccine from the UK would arrive on February 25.

David Burt said details on the amount of vaccine to be delivered would be revealed in the next few days.

He added the Cabinet would meet next week to discuss changes to social distancing requirements and would also decide on rules for people who have immunity after both injections of the Pfizer vaccine.

Ms Wilson said the third vaccination centre would open on Monday at the Bermuda College campus in Paget.

The college can accommodate up to ten vaccination stations against the six at Prospect and could open longer, from 8am to 8pm.

Ms Wilson said the third centre would help the Ministry to meet its target of immunisation for one third of the population by the end of March.

Mr Burt highlighted that the two vaccine centres had achieved up to 700 vaccinations a day.

Ms Wilson said no new cases of the coronavirus were recorded yesterday.

She added two people recovered since the last update, which brought the number of active cases down to nine.

Ms Wilson said that 9,095 people had received the Covid-19 vaccine up to February 6.

She added that 56 per cent were women and 44 per cent were men.

Ms Wilson said 1,166 healthworkers - almost half - had been vaccinated and 747 had been given both doses.

The number of essential service workers who have been given the vaccine totalled 1,016 - 43 per cent - and 339 had been given both shots.

Ms Wilson said 15,133 people had registered an interest in vaccination.

She added 2,866 Black people had registered and 7,549 White people had signed up.

A total of 3,308 had not given an ethnic origin and 1,410 gave “other” as their race.

Black people totalled 19 per cent of those who had registered and Whites made up 50 per cent.

Ms Wilson appealed to more men to come forward for the vaccine and highlighted that men over 30 were most at risk of dying of Covid-19.

She and Mr Burt also urged people to get tested and to remain vigilant.

Ayoola Oyinloye, the Government’s Chief Medical Officer, said that samples of positive tests were being examined for variant strains of the coronavirus and that no significant varieties, such as the South African one, had been found.

He added that the best protection against Covid-19 was good hygiene, the use of masks and social distancing.

Ms Wilson said the online form for vaccine registrations had been taken down for upgrades.

She admitted that some had been given vaccines before higher priority people.

But she emphasised the number was small and changes to the application system would help to prevent more incidences.

Ms Wilson said the health ministry would issue a Request for Proposal for a new pandemic response administration system which would cover everything from testing to vaccine administration.