UNICEF delivers essential cold chain equipment throughout Mongolia [Video]

As soon as the new COVID-19 virus emerged in the neighbouring countries, Mongolia took strict measures to protect its population and closed all its borders, causing the suspension of all international flights and passenger trains. Subsequently, the government increased its preventive measures against COVID-19 by shutting down schools, kindergartens and universities.

UNICEF has played a vital role in supporting the Mongolian government during the pandemic. In cooperation with international organizations and the government, UNICEF developed the National Vaccination Deployment Plan. This Plan aimed to supply COVID-19 vaccines, improve national cold chain and ultra-chain capacity, increase storage capacity and support COVID-19 vaccine communications.

Although Mongolia has a strong and effective routine child immunization programme, with all the required cold chain capacity at both national and provincial levels, additional expansion and support was needed to store COVID-19 vaccines.

“Within the partnership, UNICEF built a new Central Vaccine Store. This quadrupled vaccine storage …