Pfizer Australia’s medical director Krishan Thiru has said the company’s vaccine will be delivered successfully, despite the sub-zero temperatures in which the vaccine vials have to be stored and transported.
He appeared on Nine’s Today a short time ago and fielded some questions about the vaccine’s arrival in Australia, particularly about whether the vaccine’s requirement to be stored in minus-70 degree temperatures would cause problems.
He replied Pfizer used specially designed thermal shippers to transport its vaccine vials.
“Our company has rich heritage in cold-chain vaccine storage and distribution,” he said. “So far have a 99.9 per cent success rate from delivering the vaccines from the factory door to where they’re used with quality and integrity intact.”
He said it was too early to gauge whether the vaccine was stopping transmission of the virus in the UK, since the current proportion of the population vaccinated (about 15-20 per cent) was not high enough to make that call.
