Covid-19: Exclusive tour inside Abu Dhabi’s Hope Consortium vaccine hub

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Abu Dhabi’s Hope Consortium aspires to deliver 18 billion vaccine doses a year  Mired in the global COVID-19 outbreak, populations across the world have been looking to vaccines as a means to end the pandemic. But when the jabs eventually came onto the market in late 2020, another global concern came to the fore: vaccine access.  The UAE has been leading the way in efforts to protect its population from the coronavirus, with mass test and trace strategies introduced very early on, and a series of Phase III tests launched for COVID-19 vaccines.  Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3iT4WGY   See more videos at https://gulfnews.com/videos Read more Gulf News stories here: https://bit.ly/2HLJ2km  Subscribe to Gulf News on YouTube and watch more of our videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/GulfNewsTV  #UAEnews #Covid19 #vaccine

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00:00Since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the UAE has played a leading role in ensuring

00:05that its population remains safe and protected.

00:08Kicking off vaccine trials last summer, the UAE has also now made four types of COVID

00:14vaccines available to residents free of charge.

00:16Now the UAE is embarking on another mission.

00:19We've heard about it, and it's named the Hope Consortium.

00:23We're here at the facility here in Kizad, and we're going to take a look and have a

00:28tour of the facility with the people who are making it happen.

00:32Hope Consortium was an idea from, or initiative from, the Department of Health, where it gathered

00:39multiple parties from Abu Dhabi, the Emirate, and also international that would be able

00:45to support the end-to-end vaccine distribution and supply chain.

00:50The partners, local partners in the Hope Consortium include Etihad, Abu Dhabi Ports, Macta Gateway,

00:56Graffit, and SkyCell.

00:58They come together to perform a unique service, which is to move vaccines from anywhere in

01:04the world to anywhere in the world.

01:07The facility we're in today is the Hope Consortium.

01:11This hub here is the largest single vaccine hub in the region, with a capacity of over

01:16120 million vaccines, static storage capacity.

01:21If you assume that they move, say, 10 times a year, then that's 1.2 billion vaccines that

01:26can move through here during any period of time.

01:30We can carry all different vaccine types.

01:33We carry two to eight.

01:34We can manage minus 30 up to 120 million.

01:38And we have a freezer farm, as you see behind me, which has a capacity of 11 to 15 million

01:43doses at minus 80.

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