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The International Air Transport Association revealed that the distribution of a new Corona virus vaccine to all inhabitants of the Earth will require thousands of aircraft with special specifications.
The federation said Wednesday that reaching 7.8 billion people in the world would require an airlift consisting of 8,000 Boeing jets.
The estimate assumes that the vaccination program will require only one dose per person, while multi-course treatments will increase demand, Glenn Hughes, chief of dispatch for the industry authority, said at a news conference Wednesday.
He explained that some planes may not be suitable if the vaccines require a typical temperature of between 2 and 8 degrees Celsius to transport drugs, which means that frozen shipments will exclude more planes.
The Union is coordinating with airlines, airports, international health authorities and pharmaceutical companies to develop plans for a distribution program, as part of the “biggest transportation challenge,” as he put it.
Hughes said Frankfurt’s Fraport AG Airport is evaluating how it can help, while Air France-KLM is studying ways to maximize its network in Africa.
Clinical trials of vaccines against the emerging coronavirus are intensifying, especially in Brazil and Peru, as well as in the United States, Russia and China, which want to be the first to arrive at a vaccine even before the end of the year, six months after that the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a “pandemic”.
At the last press conference held by the World Health Organization, the organization counted 35 “candidate vaccines” that are being evaluated in human clinical trials around the world.
Nine of these vaccines are in the final stage or are preparing to be in the last stage. It is the “third stage” in which the efficacy of the vaccine is evaluated on a large scale involving thousands of volunteers.
The virus has killed 900,000 people worldwide since its emergence in China in late December.
