Written question asked by Stephen Doughty (Labour) on Friday, 22 January 2021, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 27 January 2021 (named day). It was answered by Nadhim Zahawi (Conservative) on Wednesday, 27 January 2021 on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care.
Coronavirus: Vaccination
- Question
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many additional cold chain storage refrigerators capable of safely storing the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine have been (a) ordered, (b) delivered and (c) deployed by the Government in each month since 1 September 2020.
- Answer
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Public Health England (PHE) secured 58 ultra-low temperature (ULT) freezers which provide sufficient storage for approximately five million doses of potential COVID-19 vaccines which require ULT storage. These ULT freezers were in place, commissioned and ready to receive vaccine prior to the commencement of the programme at the beginning of December 2020. The ULT freezers are for PHE to manage the national storage of COVID-19 vaccines which require storage at -70°C. The National Health Service has secured its own ULT freezers to support local storage.
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Secondary information
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- Written question
- Reference
- 141991
- Session
- 2019-21
- Transferred
- Yes
- Subjects
- Procurement Refrigerators Vaccination Pfizer Coronavirus BioNTech
- Contains statistics
- Yes
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