United Airlines announced that it had transported the first doses of the Pfizer BioNTech Vaccine on board on one of its planes heading from Belgium, in preparation for the way for the company to distribute the Corona vaccine globally, as soon as it was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ».
And the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has allowed United to carry 15,000 pounds of dry ice per flight, which is 5 times the amount normally authorized, to keep the doses from spoilage and keep them cool enough until they arrive.
United has used the chartered plane to transport the new vaccine, supported by the Federal Aviation Administration, from the vaccine production plants in Borse, Belgium, to the states of Missouri, Andover, Maryland, Kalamazoo and Michigan, in preparation for its transportation to the rest of the world, and fleets of aviation will be used for this purpose.
The production of ” Pfizer BioNTech ” came through allocating the sites of the company, “BioNTech”, to produce the vaccine for European countries, as well as a site affiliated with Pfizer in Belgium, where the vaccines will be produced to the countries of the world, while the vaccine will be produced at the Kalamazoo plant in Michigan for the United States and others. Sites in the world.
This step is the beginning of the release of the restrictions imposed on the world by creating a vaccine for Corona, which has spread in the world like wildfire.
Commenting on this, experts of communicable epidemics stressed that this step is a serious step to eliminate the virus and prevent its spread in the world.