A collaborative effort to deliver Comirnaty vaccine in the Pacific

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A collaborative effort to deliver Comirnaty vaccine in the Pacific

26 October 2022

By Ellaine Ete-Rasch and Jude Young

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 12:40 AM

VACCINES Samabula Health Centre in Suva, Fiji

Jude Young (IMAC) and Sagita Sharma (WHO – Fiji Ministry of Health and Medical Services) with staff from the Samabula Health Centre in Suva, Fiji, going over data logger readings [Image: Supplied]

This article looks at what it took to safely and successfully administer the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 mRNA vaccine (Comirnaty) in seven Pacific Island countries

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