Frenchman Sanofi announced on Tuesday that he was going to participate in the production and packaging of the vaccine of the companies Pfizer and BioNTech against Covid-19, through his general manager interviewed by "Le Figaro".
The French group is responding to a request from the government on the subject.
Sanofi will help Pfizer and BioNTech to produce their vaccine against Covid-19 and should package more than 100 million doses intended for the European Union by the end of 2021, Paul Hudson, the director general of the French laboratory announced on Tuesday in a statement. interview given to
Figaro
.
Sanofi is working on two vaccines itself to fight this pandemic, but its main project is behind schedule and is not expected to hit the market before the end of the year.
In the meantime, the French government had urged it on several occasions in recent weeks to study the possibility of making its production lines available to increase the production of already existing vaccines.
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