Cold chain logistics required for Covid-19 vaccine distribution
Published On: Friday, September 11, 2020 | By: Team KnowMyStock
As the vaccine for Covid-19 is getting ready putting together an efficient cold chain to deliver it to nook and corner of the country. From having community cold-chain networks to combining agricultural and medical cold chains wherever possible — many such ideas are abroad. A few hundred vaccine candidates are being developed globally, using different technology platforms. India, with 1.3 billion people, is the world’s largest vaccine maker. Some frontrunners are in advanced stages of trial and can hit the market early next year.
A senior official at a consulting organisation working with global alliances like Gavi and vaccine makers (like the Serum Institute of India) said: “The existing cold chain network in our country will be able to take care of vaccinating 20-25 percent of our population. We have never had the need to vaccinate our entire population at one go. The national immunisation programmes of countries generally take care of paediatric vaccinations.”
The expert committee on vaccine administration has initiated talks on cold chain logistics and models that may be required to be adopted.
A model being considered is to have a combined cold chain approach —where the agricultural cold chain (for dairy, fish, poultry) would be combined with vaccine cold chains,” said the consultant, who is working on a white paper. This approach, however, has its own limitations.
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