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Retailer Iceland Foods in coronavirus vaccine storage talks with º£½ÇÊÓÆµ Government

The Deeside based company has offered to assist in the major refrigeration effort

Iceland Foods(Image: PA)

Retailer Iceland Foods is speaking with the º£½ÇÊÓÆµ Government over the storage of Covid-19 vaccines.

Pharmaceutical giants Pfizer and Moderna have this month reported hugely positive coronavirus vaccine results.

It has sparked hopes of a return to normality by the spring with a mass vaccination programme.

The º£½ÇÊÓÆµ has ordered five million doses of the Moderna vaccine by spring - and 40 million of the Pfizer jab, creating concerns over storage capacity.

Pfizer's vaccine needs to be stored at minus 70 degrees Celsius and Moderna's at minus 20 degrees Celsius.

A scientist working on the Moderna coronavirus vaccine(Image: PA)

Business Live can reveal frozen food retailer Iceland Foods, based in Deeside, is in talks with º£½ÇÊÓÆµ Government about how it can help in the vaccine storage effort.

Iceland is the º£½ÇÊÓÆµ's leading frozen food specialist with 900 º£½ÇÊÓÆµ stores and major refrigerated storage depots and lorries to supply those sites.

They have a large cold store behind their head office at Deeside, which was reactivated as a regional distribution centre a few years ago.