A company specialising in temperature-regulated storage for the pharmaceutical industry has said that capacity issues should not be a problem in Ireland when it comes to storing one of the anticipated Covid-19 vaccines.
There are concerns that the need for the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine to be stored at temperatures well below zero will pose distribution challenges.
However, CEO of Q1 Scientific Stephen Delaney said that if the private sector and public services come together, "there won’t be capacity storage issues" in this country.
The Waterford-based company already stores and distributes medical products at such temperature levels and says it is ready to do the same for the Covid-19 vaccine. "Cold chain distribution in Pharma is complicated