In March, April and May, dozens of planes were chartered to ship masks from China to Europe.

But faced with failing logistics, the International Air Transport Association asks governments to anticipate the provision of future Covid-19 vaccines when they become available.

If laboratories around the world are mobilized to find a vaccine against Covid-19 as quickly as possible, there will then be a logistical problem: how to transport billions of doses around the world in record time?

To be prepared, IATA, the International Air Transport Association, is asking governments to quickly agree on measures to be anticipated now.

Simplify customs procedures

To deliver the first wave of doses worldwide, the International Air Transport Association estimates that it will take more than 1,000 flights a day for two weeks, with the equivalent of 8,000 747 cargo planes. So to be quickly in order walk, IATA requires "careful planning".

Governments must anticipate many points: simplify customs procedures, exempt crew members from quarantine or even take into account that half of the world fleet is currently immobilized.

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Don't relive the confusion of spring

The objective is above all not to relive the cacophony experienced when the masks were sent last spring, between delays, endless delays in obtaining traffic rights or even diverted cargoes.

With a new constraint this time: the vaccines must be transported between 2 and 8 ° C.

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Air France already knows how to respect the cold chain, with two cargo planes and the possibility of easily converting its passenger aircraft.

The company is participating in a working group that has just been created with the ADP group, the prefecture, customs and major players in the pharmaceutical sector.