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Stringent checks here keep cold chain intact: Experts
Assurance comes after Govt announcement of plans to roll out Covid-19 vaccines in S pore
(From left) Mr Ashish Pal, managing director for Merck Sharp & Dohme in Singapore and Malaysia; Associate Professor Lim Poh Lian, director of the high-level isolation unit at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases; Professor Ooi Eng Eong from Duke-NUS Medical School; and The Straits Times senior health correspondent Salma Khalik at the webinar yesterday.PHOTO: SHINTARO TAY
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Cargo containing pharmaceuticals, with a thermal blanket to maintain low temperatures, being loaded up a Singapore Airlines plane on Dec 5, 2020.- ST
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): A critical part in the distribution of the temperature-sensitive Covid-19 vaccines, made by Moderna and Pfizer and BioNTech, is to ensure a specified temperature range is maintained.
In Singapore, stringent checks are in place that ensure the cold chain for these vaccines is not compromised and that the vaccines remain safe and effective, experts said on Thursday (Dec 17) during a Straits Times webinar on Covid-19 vaccination.
Their assurance comes after the Government announced on Monday its plans to roll out Covid-19 vaccines in Singapore soon, including the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines.
SINGAPORE - A critical part in the distribution of the temperature-sensitive Covid-19 vaccines, made by Pfizer and BioNTech as well as Moderna, is to ensure a specified temperature range is maintained.
In Singapore, stringent checks are in place that ensure the cold chain for these vaccines is not compromised and that the vaccines remain safe and effective, experts said on Thursday (Dec 17) during a Straits Times webinar on Covid-19 vaccination.
Their assurance comes after the Government announced on Monday its plans to roll out Covid-19 vaccines in Singapore soon, including the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine which the Health Sciences Authority has approved.