TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan will buy 10,500 deep freezers to save unique coronavirus vaccines and is thinking about buying solidified carbon dioxide wholesale as it prepares to secure its population from the virus, the Ministry of Health said on Thursday.
Japan has contracts to buy an overall of 290 million dosages of the vaccines from Pfizer Inc, AstraZeneca Plc and Moderna Inc, or enough for 145 million people if everybody gets 2 shots as needed.
Pfizer’s vaccines need to be kept at around minus 75 Celsius (minus 103 Fahrenheit, and Moderna’s at about minus 20 C, positioning logistics issues.
Pfizer, along with Moderna and its domestic partner Takeda Pharmaceutical, plan to build networks to keep vaccines at the appropriate temperature as they are dispersed to where they will be deployed, the ministry said in a declaration.
Japan has actually had more than 165,000 cases of unique coronavirus infection and 2,417 fatalities, with the capital, Tokyo, particularly hard struck. Tokyo reported 352 new cases on Tuesday.
Reporting by Kiyoshi Takenaka; Editing by Kim Coghill
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