最多の２００万回分　ワクチン輸入、初の大型機―新型コロナ

　米製薬大手ファイザーの新型コロナウイルスワクチン輸入で、１便当たり過去最多となる１７００箱が５日、製造拠点のあるベルギーから成田空港に到着した。１瓶で６回接種できる注射器で約２００万回分に相当する。
　輸送を担う全日本空輸は初めて大型機を投入した。ワクチンの搭載容量はこれまで用いていた中型機の１．７倍に拡大した。（2021/04/05-14:52）

An aircraft carrying about two million doses of major U.S. drugmaker Pfizer Inc.'s novel coronavirus vaccine arrived at Narita International Airport in Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, on Monday.
   The plane came from Belgium, where the company has a production base for the vaccine.
   Transported by the aircraft were 1,700 boxes of the vaccine, enough for two million jabs if syringes capable of taking six shots from each vial are used. The amount of the vaccine shipped to Japan by a single flight was thus the largest. The Pfizer product has so far been the only novel coronavirus vaccine used in Japan.
   For the latest shipment, All Nippon Airways, which is in charge of transporting the Pfizer vaccine to Japan, used a large aircraft for the first time. The plane's loading capacity for the vaccine is about 70 pct as large as that of the midsize aircraft that the carrier used for the previous shipments.
   This was the 11th flight for carrying the vaccine to Japan.