Japan has agreements to buy a total of 290 million doses of vaccines from Pfizer Inc, AstraZeneca Plc and Moderna Inc, or enough for 145 million people if each person gets two vaccines as required.
Tokyo:
The Japanese Ministry of Health said, Thursday, that Japan will buy 10,500 deep freezers to store the new Corona virus vaccines and is considering buying dry ice in large quantities as it prepares to protect its population from the virus.
Japan has agreements to buy a total of 290 million doses of vaccines from Pfizer Inc, AstraZeneca Plc and Moderna Inc, or enough for 145 million people if each person gets two vaccines as required.
Pfizer vaccines should be kept at about minus 75 ° C (minus 103 ° F, and Moderna vaccines at about minus 20 ° C), which causes logistical problems.
The ministry said in a statement that Pfizer, as well as Moderna and its local partner, Confirma Pharmaceuticals, intend to build networks to keep vaccines at an appropriate temperature where they are distributed to the places where they will be deployed.
Japan has seen more than 165,000 cases of the new Coronavirus and 2,417 deaths, with the capital, Tokyo, severely affected. Tokyo recorded 352 new cases on Tuesday.
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