The Minister for Industry, Agnès Pannier-Runacher.

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A subcontractor will start producing Moderna's vaccine against Covid-19 in France “in March”, and another will launch “in April” the production of that of Pfizer / BioNTech, announced on RTL on Wednesday the Minister for Agnès Pannier-Runacher Industry.

Tuesday evening, Emmanuel Macron announced that the production of vaccines on French soil would begin "from the end of February, the beginning of March", after a meeting with the major French and European laboratories.

The President of the Republic had indicated that four production sites would participate in the creation of vaccines developed by other laboratories, including three French subcontractors.

In November and December, the French subcontractor Delpharm had already announced that it would produce the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine in its Normandy plant in Saint-Rémy-sur-Avre, the Swedish laboratory Recipharm for the Moderna vaccine in Monts, in Indre- et-Loire, and the French manufacturer Fareva the CureVac vaccine at its sites in Pau and Val-de-Reuil, for filling and packaging operations.

Sanofi is going to do it too

The minister indicated that the French laboratory Sanofi - which has postponed the release of its own vaccine to the second half of 2021 - "will for its part also produce".

“We worked with them so that they produced BioNTech vaccine in their German factory, which will help to move up production chains.

If their vaccine has positive results, in April, they will also start production ”, detailed Agnès Pannier-Runacher.

The minister also mentioned the delivery times for the various vaccines: “Pfizer has reduced its production, (but) has already caught up with its delay in the French chains.

He delivered more than he originally had to.

Moderna should correct in the next 3-4 weeks.

AstraZeneca, it should take longer, because Astrazeneca has a real problem on one of its sites.

We asked Astrazeneca to deliver from other sites to catch up.

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Other vaccines will arrive

Agnès Pannier-Runacher also highlighted the fact that vaccines “may arrive earlier than expected: we have Janssen, Novavax may also present its clinical results faster than expected.

We keep either good news or bad news, it is by constantly adjusting that we increase vaccine production, ”summarized the Minister.

"We are rather confident to offer French people who wish to be vaccinated, by the end of the summer, a vaccination", she stressed.

Asked about the Russian vaccine Sputnik-V - which the journal

The Lancet

has just confirmed to be 91.3% effective - the minister declared that "any vaccine candidate who submits a dossier" to the European Medicines Agency, "with the data necessary for a validation will be examined.

We make scientific decisions, not political decisions, ”she underlined.

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