At the moment, it s receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines.
In the future, the Health Service Executive expects six different Covid-19 vaccines to be stored here.
The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is the trickiest to handle. It has to be stored at ultra-low temperatures, between -70C and -90C.
The Citywest facility, used for the HSE’s National Cold Chain Service, has ten ultra-low temperature freezers for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, another five freezers for the Moderna vaccines, which are stored at -20C, and large freezers with temperatures between -2C and -8C, for any future vaccines.
From arrival in the warehouse to handover at the vaccination site the vaccines are temperature checked and tracked by GPS.
Limerick pensioner would love to go dancing at the Glentworth after receiving Covid vaccine
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85 year old Bernie Ryan from Woodview Park, Caherdavin, receiving her Covid-19 vaccination from peer vaccinator Mairead Duggan );
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BERNIE Ryan from Woodview Park in Caherdavin and 101-year-old Nora Gray from Newport, County Tipperary have become the first residents at St Camillus’ Hospital, Shelbourne Road to be vaccinated against Covid-19.
Nora, who turns 102, on February 16 was delighted to receive the vaccine. She even joked that now she has had the vaccine she can replicate what she “did for her 90th birthday celebrations when she visited her granddaughter in Australia”.