The vaccination plan in France is not called into question by the delivery times announced by some industrialists, recently AstraZeneca, assured the Minister for Industry, Agnès Pannier-Runacher on Saturday.
"We have new vaccines arriving, we have Pfizer which is increasing its production capacities," said Minister for Industry, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, on France Inter on Saturday.
"We had indicated a million people vaccinated at the end of January, we are at 950,000 today. So this objective will be exceeded," said the minister.
According to her, the delivery times announced by manufacturers therefore do not call into question the French vaccination plan against the coronavirus.
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"Everyone is mobilized"
"We have also indicated 15 million people vaccinated in June. I am reasonably confident that this target will be exceeded," she continued.
Deliveries of the AstraZeneca / Oxford vaccine in Europe, subject to its approval, will be smaller than expected, due to a "drop in yield" at a manufacturing site, the British group said on Friday.
The European Commission had initially reserved up to 400 million doses of this vaccine.
"The union has ordered a lot of doses," said Agnès Pannier-Runacher.
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"Regarding AstraZeneca, they tell us that they have a problem with one factory so I suggested that they work on finding solutions, perhaps by going to look for other factories to produce and they tell us + we prefer to concentrate our teams at this plant to overcome this difficult course + ", she said.
"So everyone is on the move, everyone is mobilized," she said, without giving a figure on the impact of the delays announced by AstraZeneca.
"No delivery delays"
The American group Pfizer had also announced delivery delays for the vaccine developed with the German BioNTech, but the partners then announced a "plan" to limit them to one week.
"In France we have no delays in delivery of doses of Pfizer. There was a slowdown last week but which is caught up", assured Agnés Pannier-Runacher.
"More than 2 million doses have been delivered since the start of the campaign and these are mainly doses of Pfizer since Moderna has a much smaller number of doses delivered," she said.