Al Salem Johnson Controls Designs Cold Stores for COVID-19 Vaccines
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — As countries roll out their vaccination drives, health and logistics sectors and pharmaceutical companies around the world are preparing their cold storage solutions across the chain to ensure safe and efficient transportation and storage of the COVID-19 vaccines at very low temperatures, ranging between minus 20° to minus 70°C.
Moderna has stressed that its vaccine must be kept at a freezing temperature of minus 20 degrees Celsius for long-term storage (up to six months); while it can be stored for 30 days at a temperature ranging between 2°-8°C. As for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, it must be stored at minus 70°C. Meanwhile, the preservation and storage temperature of the Russian vaccine, Sputnik V, ranges between 2°-8°C.