Swiss Air Lines flies 14 tons of vaccine to Brazil

SWISS plane loaded with cargo on sunny day.

Swiss International Air Lines on Friday delivered nearly 2 million doses of finished COVID-19 vaccines to São Paulo from Zurich, the company said.

Spokesman Fabian Mettler declined to name the vaccine that was transported, citing customer privacy restrictions, but the shipment originated in Beijing. CanSino Biologics is located in the Chinese capital and has previously shipped its Ad5-nCoV vaccine to other countries for clinical trials. 

Swiss WorldCargo said the 14 tons of vaccine were carried...

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AirBridge Cargo transports first shipment of Chinese COVID vaccine

A 747 jumbo cargo plane gets loaded with large coolers containing pharmaceutical products.

Russian freighter operator AirBridgeCargo has delivered its first shipment of China’s COVID-19 vaccine under the logistics guidance of UPS Marken (NYSE: UPS), the clinical supply chain subsidiary of UPS Healthcare.

AirBridgeCargo, part of the Volga-Dnepr Group, said Monday it transported 6,000 doses of the Ad5-nCoV vaccine made by CanSino Biologics from Beijing to an undisclosed destination for use in clinical trials in various countries. The vaccine is stable at temperature ranges between 35.6...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/airbridge-cargo-transports-first-shipment-of-chinese-covid-vaccine

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