Cyprus Mail 19 December 2020 - by Gina Agapiou
Cyprus received the special freezers to store the Covid vaccine on Saturday, the health ministry announced.
The MSC Lausanne commercial ship docked in Limassol port early in the morning with two deep-freezers, each worth €15,000. The ship sailed from the port of Le Havre in France.
The freezers will be used to store the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines at -75C.
They are expected to be transferred to Nicosia.
Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou announced this week that Cyprus will receive the first batch of Covid vaccines on December 27, together with the rest of the European countries.
And in-cyprus 19 December 2020 - by gavriella
The special fridges for storing the vaccines of Pfizer-BioNTech have arrived in Cyprus today. Due to the special conditions required for the storing the vaccines at -75C, the Health Ministry proceeded with the purchase of two special fridges.
In each fridge approximately 130,000 dosages of the vaccine can be stored.
The vaccines will be stored in a central point and will be distributed to Vaccination Centres all over Cyprus.
According to the Ministry’s plan, the vaccinations will take place by trained staff at the 38 Centres that will operate in all districts.
(philenews)
