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Twenty-six ultra-low temperature freezers delivered by UNICEF through COVAX in August are enabling Bangladesh to receive, store and distribute large quantities of COVID-19 vaccines that require ultra-cold storage.
Each of the 26 freezers can hold over 300,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines, supporting administration of these vaccines into districts beyond Dhaka. Today’s COVAX shipment of 2.5 million US-donated doses of Pfizer is made possible thanks to this additional ultra-cold chain capacity.
“As more countries come forward through COVAX to ensure equitable access to the vaccines, increasing the ultra-cold chain capacity in receiving countries is of crucial importance,” said Tomoo Hozumi, UNICEF Representative in Bangladesh. “UNICEF, as an implementing partner of COVAX, will continue to support Bangladesh until the end of the pandemic. No one is safe until everyone is safe,” he added.
The delivery of 26 ultra-low temperature freezers to Bangladesh is part of UNICEF’s global target of delivering 350 ultra-low temperature freezers to more than 45 countries on behalf of COVAX. This is an immense and unprecedented undertaking to develop national cold-chain capacities in order to accelerate the number of fully vaccinated people in the shortest possible time.
As of today, only 9 per cent of the population in Bangladesh has been fully vaccinated. COVAX aims to ensure equitable access to vaccines and supplies, particularly to low and middle-income countries. Today’s shipment of 2.5 million doses is part of a donation from the United States of 6 million Pfizer doses through COVAX. This is in addition to other COVAX deliveries and also large quantities of vaccines brought into the country by the Government of Bangladesh through bilateral agreements.
Vaccines and supplies through the COVAX Facility to low- and middle-income countries, including Bangladesh, are generously supported both by donor pledges and by direct donations. UNICEF calls on the continued and greater support to COVAX from donors and from countries that have already achieved high coverage.
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