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The COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer has begun to be brought from the US to Europe. United Airlines jets began operating the first such flights in history, bound for Brussels, on Friday, the Wall Street Journal reports.
The vaccine doses have been shipped in refrigerated boxes and are ready for rapid distribution if approved and approved.
These flights are just one of the links in the global supply chain established to meet the logistical challenges of COVID-19 vaccine distribution.
The distribution plan includes the storage of vaccine doses in existing cold stores at Pfizer sites in Kalamazoo, Michigan and Puurs, Belgium, as well as the development of similar facilities in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin and Karlsruhe, Germany.
The supply chain also involves dozens of cargo flights and hundreds of road transports every day.
According to the New York Post, the Food and Drug Administration has already allowed United Airlines cargo planes to carry five times more ice than is normally allowed during a flight (about 6.8 tons), to maintain the vaccine. at the extremely low temperatures it must be kept at (around minus 80 degrees Celsius).
Editor: Mihnea Lazăr
