Guest of RFI this Monday morning, Clément Beaune returned to the increase in vaccine prices revealed Sunday by the
Financial Times
.
According to the British daily, the Pfizer vaccine must go from 15.5 to 19.5 euros and that of Moderna from 19 to 21.5 euros.
If the European Commission had refused to comment, pleading the confidentiality of contracts, the Secretary of State explained the increase by an adaptation of the vaccines to the delta variant: "
The negotiated doses are not the same as during the first orders.
He justified himself.
He also said he wanted to "
make the negotiations public, once they are completed
."
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Price is not the only aspect of European contracts to have evolved. The European Union has thus asked for guarantees so that the 300 components necessary for the production of vaccines "
are produced on European soil
". The schedules were also renegotiated with penalties provided if the laboratories did not respect them, said the Secretary of State.
Clément Beaune also welcomed the efficiency of the European Union in negotiations with laboratories, with an amount spent per dose "
one and a half times cheaper than the United Kingdom for the first deliveries
".
"
The EU is the area of the world that buys the most doses of vaccines
, if
we bought at national level we would pay more
."
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The Secretary of State also downplayed the scale of Saturday's protests against the health pass. "
While 200,000 people demonstrated, 500,000 were vaccinated the same day
." "
We must respond to concerns, set up the health pass with professionals and continue to deploy vaccination,
" he insisted.