Covid update: 25 February 2021
25 Feb 2021
A round up of this week s coronavirus-related news and countermeasures from the photonics industry.
A technician preparing a solar powered refrigerator for a dispensary in Kenya. Solar-powered refrigerators could be a game-changer in Africaâs fight against Covid-19 by helping the continent to store and distribute vaccines, especially in rural and remote areas with no connection to electricity.
As the world is rolling out mass vaccinations against Covid-19, experts from the Global Environment Facility-funded Sure Chill vaccine storage project in Colombia, Eswatini and Kenya add that equipping health facilities not connected to the national grid with solar-powered refrigerators could be key to reaching rural populations.
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