A vaccination center in Lyon, January 15, 2020. -
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The delay in the delivery of anti-Covid vaccines from Pfizer / BioNTech will be caught up "at the end of the first quarter", assured the Minister for Industry Agnès Panier-Runnacher on Monday, who however said she was "vigilant".
"The schedule calls for a drop in delivery of 140,000 doses this week and, starting next week, we will have 520,000 weekly deliveries," as originally planned, she told CNews.
“We will make up for this week's delay at the end of the first quarter.
(…) Pfizer guarantees us something almost painless, but we will be vigilant, ”added the minister, referring to“ an enormous (industrial) challenge ”to meet massive orders.
One million vaccinated before February
Friday, the two laboratories announced unexpectedly not to be able to provide the amount of doses to which they had committed, triggering the wrath of European countries, already criticized for the slowness of the vaccination campaign.
They then assured the next day that they had put in place a "plan" to limit the delays in delivery of their vaccine to one week, while Europe feared that the deliveries of doses would weaken for "three to four weeks".
“At the end of the month, one million French people will be vaccinated, and our goal is to vaccinate 15 million French people by the end of June,” she said.
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