Agnès Pannier-Runacher, the Minister for Industry.

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The agreement on vaccines against Covid-19 between Sanofi and BioNTech supports the order for 600 million doses from the European Union and will make it "feasible", the French Minister for Industry said on Wednesday, Agnès Pannier-Runacher.

This agreement "will make it possible to produce more than 100 million doses from the month of August, at a fairly regular rate until the end of the year, so as to provide immediate support (...) for the market. European, ”said Agnès Pannier-Runacher on France 2.

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The project "supports the order for 600 million doses placed by the European Union" and "makes this order feasible, since the challenge today is to mobilize all European production capacities to increase vaccine production" , she added.

The Minister recalled that in addition to the agreement made by Sanofi, three manufacturers will produce vaccines at their sites in France: Recipharm, Delpharm, Fareva, and that this starts during the first half of the year.

No reason to suspend payments at this time

She announced that "other laboratories" will join this device, "since now we have better visibility on the vaccines that work and on industrial capacities", without giving any names.

Asked about the delivery delays announced by the British laboratory AstraZeneca, Agnès Pannier-Runacher said she had "requested an inspection" of the vaccine production site, to take stock of the production difficulties.

"This subject must be resolved quickly and it is necessary (...) that the doubts about the destination of the doses are also quickly raised", she said.

The French minister observed that the President of the European Commission had "indicated that she was going to make proposals in terms of export control".

With regard to France, "I am delivered the number of doses I ordered", assured the Minister.

“So I have no reason to suspend my payments,” she added.

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