FedEx Express has announced that it has started shipping the newly approved COVID-19 vaccine on behalf of McKesson Corp. to dosing centres throughout the United States.
FedEx Express has shipped millions of COVID-19 vaccines since US distribution began in mid-December 2020 and is prepared to scale up to accommodate anticipated growth in volume throughout the spring and summer. Nearly three months after COVID-19 vaccine distribution began, FedEx has shipped COVID-19 vaccines and supply kits to administration sites across all 50 states.
“As vaccine production ramps up and more vaccines are approved, we expect to see a significant uptick in COVID-19 vaccine and supply kit volume moving through our network in the weeks and months ahead,” said Don Colleran, President and CEO for FedEx Express.
FedEx Express will transport the new COVID-19 vaccines and kits of supplies for the administration of the vaccine, using its FedEx Priority Overnight service supported by FedEx Priority Alert.
In addition to widespread distribution throughout the US, FedEx is delivering COVID-19 vaccines to US military bases overseas for the Defense Logistics Agency and is working with the Canadian government and healthcare companies to ship COVID-19 vaccines to all 13 Canadian provinces and territories.
Source: FedEx
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