UAE to cold-store mRNA COVID Vaccines for poorer countries - The National

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Published by: THE NATIONAL on 7 Jan 2020
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Abu Dhabi’s vaccine hub is to addressing a key problem of the coronavirus pandemic by stockpiling shots for countries without advanced refrigeration facilities. Vaccines such as Pfizer-BioNTech need to be kept at temperatures of -70°C. With an estimated 3 billion of the world’s 7.8bn population

living in areas which cannot maintain a vaccine “cold chain”, there are growing fears those most in need won't be vaccinated.

But the Hope Consortium – a storage and delivery hub based in Abu Dhabi – now aims to address the issue.

Using its capacity to handle tens of millions of vaccines at any one time, the consortium will store vaccines and deliver them in batches as required through Etihad and freight forwarders on the ground.

"The way this works is you can imagine you have a leading vaccine supplier, say in China, and you have a country in Africa that requires two million vaccines," Robert Sutton, head of logistics cluster at Abu Dhabi Ports, told The [...]

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