A Pfizer vaccine production site in Puurs, Belgium (illustrative image).

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Bottling began on Wednesday.

The first Pfizer / BioNTech vaccines were produced on Wednesday on French soil, confirmed subcontractor Delpharm.

Emmanuel Macron welcomed this announcement, even if the doses will not be intended only for the French.

"It started this morning," told AFP the Delpharm group, which bottles these Pfizer / BioNTech vaccines in Eure-et-Loir, confirming an announcement a few minutes earlier by Emmanuel Macron on Twitter.

"250 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines produced in France in 2021: this is our goal," said Emmanuel Macron.

“It begins in concrete terms today with the first BioNTech-Pfizer vaccines produced at the Delpharm site in Saint-Rémy-sur-Avre: congratulations to all the teams!

», He greeted.

Three other vaccines in the race

The vaccines in question were delivered in bulk to Delpharm on Tuesday from BioNTech's plant in Marburg, Germany, where they are manufactured.

Delpharm is responsible for putting them in the vials which will be distributed to the vaccinators.

Even if they leave the French factory today, they will not be immediately injected because it will take nearly a month to approve them.

Thereafter, they will not be specifically dedicated to the French.

Delpharm told AFP that the proportion should correspond to the quota of anti-Covid vaccines planned by the European Union for France on all of its orders, or around 15%.

In a few days, a competitor of Delpharm will begin to bottle Moderna vaccines in Indre-et-Loire.

At the end of May, the Fareva company will take care of the CureVac vaccine - not yet approved in the EU - in the Eure and in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques.

Finally, the giant Sanofi will lend a hand from this summer to its competitor Johnson & Johnson by bottling its vaccine, near Lyon.

Already approved in the EU but subject to restrictions for certain age groups, the AstraZeneca vaccine is not currently supposed to be bottled in France.

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