On several occasions in recent weeks, the government had invited the Sanofi company to provide additional assistance in the production of vaccines.
It's done.
Sanofi will help Pfizer and BioNTech to produce their vaccine against Covid-19 and should package more than 100 million doses intended for the European Union by the end of 2021, as Paul Hudson, the director general of the laboratory, announced on Tuesday. French in an interview with Le Figaro.
Production is due to start next July.
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The government had asked the French laboratory to study the possibility of making its production lines available to increase the production of already existing vaccines.
A complex procedure
Asked by Le Parisien on January 24, Minister Delegate for Industry Agnès Pannier-Runacher had said she hoped for an announcement in this direction in the days to come.
“When Sanofi published its results in December, which collectively disappointed us (Editor's note: the vaccine is not ready), I asked them two questions.
Is there a way to get your vaccine to market faster by reworking clinical trials - including mobilizing our health authorities?
Does this event free up industrial capacities that can be made available to other laboratories?
There are technological hurdles, but Sanofi is playing along!
», She detailed.
At Le Figaro, Sanofi General Manager Paul Hudson specifies that this production will be launched at the factory in Frankfurt, Germany.
“Our teams are working together to put things in place under the right conditions, because this is a much more complex procedure than it seems,” he comments.
The vaccine should be bottled in a sterile environment at very low temperature.
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