3 billion people are deprived of receiving the Corona vaccine

The race to obtain a vaccine for the Coronavirus collides with several complex challenges, as it needs to go through a special cycle, as it will go from development laboratories, to pharmaceutical factories, and then distributed through special tracks that need cooling. in stages to maintain the validity of vaccines.

Approximately 3 billion people may have difficulty obtaining the vaccine due to the lack of cooling technologies necessary to maintain the viability of the vaccine.

According to a report published by the Associated Press, among the nearly 8 billion people worldwide, the poor will be “among the hardest hit by the Corona pandemic and will be the last to recover.”

The report indicates that the poor are not only suffering from the lack of vaccine-only storage methods, as the health systems in their countries suffer, especially under the weight of the Corona pandemic, as these countries lack equipment and supplies. medical, especially refrigeration technologies.

And more than two-thirds of the world do not have the technology or refrigerated logistics equipment to maintain the cold chain for the transport and preservation of vaccines, according to a study carried out by the German logistics company DHL.

It has been estimated that transporting and delivering the vaccines around the world will require some 15,000 air cargo flights.

The issue of cooling Corona vaccines will not be easy even in the richest countries, as it will need storage degrees of minus 70 degrees Celsius, which is what logistics experts warn.

This can be a real problem in most countries in Central Asia, India, Southeast Asia, Latin America, and African countries.

In a small clinic in Burkina Faso that sees about 11,000 patients, vaccines are brought in from a hospital 40 minutes away, because they don’t have a refrigerator to store these vaccines after their refrigerator burned out last fall.