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Japan to buy 10,500 freezers for vaccines – The West Australian
Japan’s Ministry of Health says it will buy 10,500 deep freezers to store coronavirus vaccines as it prepares to vaccinate its population.
Japan will buy 10,500 deep freezers to store coronavirus vaccines and is considering purchasing dry ice in bulk as it prepares to protect its population from the virus, the Ministry of Health says.
Japan has agreements to buy a total of 290 million doses of the vaccines from Pfizer Inc, AstraZeneca Plc and Moderna Inc, or enough for 145 million people if everyone gets two shots as required.
Pfizer’s vaccines need to be kept at around minus 75 Celsius, and Moderna’s at about minus 20C, posing logistics…
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