It becomes clearer.
The day after Emmanuel Macron's announcements on LCI, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, the Minister for Industry, began to detail this Wednesday morning on RTL the schedule for the future production on French soil of vaccines against Covid-19 .
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As we announced to you on Tuesday evening, a French subcontractor will begin to produce Moderna's vaccine "in March".
But the Minister Delegate also gave schedule elements for the Pfizer vaccine which will be produced "in April" on French soil.
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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.
Sanofi will also produce
In November and December, Delpharm had already announced that it would produce the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine at its Normandy plant, Recipharm the Moderna vaccine in Monts, Indre-et-Loire, and Fareva the CureVac vaccine at its sites in Pau and Val -de-Reuil.
“The first production site to start will be in March for the Moderna vaccine,” Agnès Pannier-Runacher said on Wednesday morning.
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“We will have a production site which will then start in April, it will be for the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine.
And in May, it should be for the CureVac vaccine, there we are waiting for the marketing authorization, so I put a conditional, ”she added.
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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.