The Ghana ministry of health recently announced it completed administering the first 600,000 COVAX COVID-19 vaccines delivered by UPS.
More than 22,000 of those doses were delivered to rural clinics in the Ashanti region via the medical drone network partnership launched in 2019 by The UPS Foundation, GAVI and Zipline.
The drones can quickly deliver vaccines as far away as 69 kilometers with no impact on storage temperature.
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Thanks to the partnership, the government of Ghana expects to deliver 2.5 million COVID-19 vaccines over the coming months using drones.
In addition, freezers donated by UPS have been installed at Zipline distribution sites in Rwanda to support 100,000 doses. The UPS Foundation is providing freezers to Eswatini, Bhutan, Georgia, Albania, Macedonia and Ukraine to support the next shipment of Pfizer vaccines. More countries will be added as conversations with ministries of health continue.
In the U.S., UPS donated freezers to the Navajo Nation to help ensure equitable distribution of the Pfizer vaccine.
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