(Dec 21) evening on board a Singapore Airlines (SIA) cargo flight from Belgium, where it was manufactured.The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine arrived at Changi Airport aboard a scheduled SIA Boeing 747-400 freighter service from the Belgian capital Brussels at about 7.35pm.The vaccine for the Sars-Cov-2 coronavirus is the first one to be approved for use in Singapore.

Singapore is also the first Asian country to receive the vaccine, which was jointly developed by American pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech.

Logistics companies, approved to handle COVID-19 vaccine, have all been trained up to the World Health Organization standards to be able to handle this type of cargo safely. The vaccine must be kept at very low temperatures — about negative 70°C. SIA said that as part of a trial run last Saturday on the same freighter route, thermal shippers — also known as cool boxes — that carry the vaccine were tracked for their internal temperature.The sublimation rate of the dry ice in the cool boxes was also measured, referring to the process where solids turn to gas. 

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