{"id":383993,"date":"2020-11-13T10:23:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T04:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=383993"},"modified":"2020-11-13T10:35:20","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T05:05:20","slug":"passenger-jets-can-play-integral-role-in-frozen-vaccine-airlift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/passenger-jets-can-play-integral-role-in-frozen-vaccine-airlift\/","title":{"rendered":"Passenger jets can play integral role in frozen vaccine airlift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Passenger jets will be able to transport coronavirus vaccines at the required ultra-low temperatures as long as they are stored in specially made containers, according to Europe\u2019s biggest cargo-only airline.<\/p>\n<p>No plane, even a purpose-built freighter, would otherwise be able to keep inoculations at the minus-80 degrees Celsius (minus-112 Fahrenheit) specified by Pfizer Inc. for its shot, according to Cargolux Airlines International SA Chief Executive Officer Richard Forson. That would make shipment in custom-designed boxes the only viable option, he said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe container itself can remain at ambient temperature because it\u2019s protected on the inside,&#8221; he said in a London Aviation Club webinar, adding that capacity won\u2019t be an issue. \u201cAll the passenger aircraft in the world will be mobilized to transport these vaccines,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passenger jets will be able to transport coronavirus vaccines at the required ultra-low temperatures as long as they are stored in specially made containers, according to Europe\u2019s biggest cargo-only airline. No plane, even a purpose-built freighter, would otherwise be able to keep inoculations at the minus-80 degrees Celsius (minus-112 Fahrenheit) specified by Pfizer Inc. for its shot, according to Cargolux Airlines International SA Chief Executive Officer Richard Forson. That would make shipment in custom-designed boxes the only viable option, he said Thursday. \u201cThe container itself can remain at ambient temperature because it\u2019s protected on the inside,&#8221; he said in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}