One warehouse in Dublin receives all the Covid-19 vaccines brought into the country, and for the past month they've been getting a shipment around once a week.
At the moment, it is receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines. In the future, the Health Service Executive expects six different Covid-19 vaccines to be stored here.
The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is the trickiest to handle. It has to be stored at ultra-low temperatures, between -70C and -90C.
The Citywest facility, used for the HSE’s National Cold Chain Service, has ten ultra -low temperature freezers for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, another five freezers for the Moderna vaccines, which are stored at -20C, and large freezers with temperatures between -2C and -8C, for any