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By the end of March, there should be just under a million doses of vaccines in Austria, so half a million people can be vaccinated. How long will it take before Austria reaches a vaccination rate of more than 50 percent? Until late fall?
That is certainly how long it will take, provided other manufacturers also supply vaccination doses. Austria is guaranteed 3.5 million doses of vaccine. If the EU takes another option and orders another 100 million doses of vaccine, another two million doses of vaccine will be added. Austria will then have the option of receiving a total of up to 5.5 million doses of vaccine in 2021. This would allow some 2.7 million Austrians to be vaccinated.
The vaccine should be refrigerated to minus 70 degrees. Is the cold chain guaranteed from production to vaccination?
It is not common to store the medication at minus 70 degrees, but nothing unusual either. After production at the Belgian plant, the vaccine is simply transported across Europe in a truck refrigerated at minus 70 degrees. Then the delivery arrives in bulk. These are distribution centers where the necessary cooling systems are also available. From there, the vaccines are distributed to vaccination routes or hospitals. After thawing, you have five days to vaccinate the vaccine and it can be stored at temperatures of two to eight degrees.
