Japan to buy 10,500 freezers for coronavirus vaccines


  • World
  • Thursday, 10 Dec 2020

FILE PHOTO: A woman wearing a protective mask, following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, sits on a bench in Tokyo, Japan, November 25, 2020. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will buy 10,500 deep freezers to store novel coronavirus vaccines and is considering purchasing dry ice in bulk as it prepares to protect its population from the virus, the Ministry of Health said on Thursday.

Japan has agreements to buy a total of 290 million doses of the vaccines from Pfizer Inc, AstraZeneca Plc and Moderna Inc, or enough for 145 million people if everyone gets two shots as required.

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