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The first Swedish vaccines were shipped from the Belgian factory the night before Christmas Eve.
Tomorrow at 08.00 hours they will be delivered to a secret place in Sweden to be repackaged. It is about 10,000 doses packaged in something similar to pizza boxes that will be sent to the regions of the country.
Otherwise, the transport is surrounded by a lot of secrecy.
Not even Sweden’s vaccine coordinator Richard Bergström knows where the truck, or trucks, with their precious cargo are.
– Only Pfizer knows who drives the truck, they have GPS control, he says.
Can you say something about where they are repackaged and stored?
– No, it’s classified, you must not know where this is happening somewhere.
When the vaccine has crossed the border, Richard Bergströms is no longer responsible for management, then the Public Health Agency and the regions take over.
First installment: “Ten pizza boxes”
Each vial contains five doses of vaccine and each box that looks like a pizza box contains 975 doses, says Irika Goossens, Pfizer communications manager, of Ulrika Goossen.
– This means that the first delivery from Sweden corresponds to about ten boxes of pizza.
Vaccines ready for transport to various repackaging stations in Europe.
Photo: Pfizer
Pfizer and the Swedish Public Health Agency are also very secretive about the circumstances surrounding the delivery.
– According to our agreement, we will not talk about where the vaccine is located, says Ulrika Goossens and refers to safety reasons.
– There is an emergency confidentiality around this, so I cannot give anything other than that the doses arrive tomorrow, says Sara Rörbecker’s press contact at the Swedish Public Health Agency.
