(ANSA) - ROME, APRIL 04 - "I set up an almost military organization to allow us to be sure that the companies that are responsible for producing vaccines deliver them on time and on time to the Member States" of the European Union: EU commissioner in charge of the anti-Covid vaccine strategy, Thierry Breton, during a visit today to a factory of the Corden Pharma company, which produces a component of the Moderna vaccine, in Chenôve, near Dijon, in the center of France.
"The vaccine task force, for which I am responsible at the European level, now governs 52 factories on the continent as a whole", added the French European Commissioner, quoted by the French media, reiterating his promise to deliver "360 million doses by the end of June "and over 400 million in mid-July, and reaffirming the intention to make Europe the leading vaccine producer continent.
We are in a facility that plays an absolutely essential role in the fight in which we are committed against the virus and for our vaccination policy, "Breton said to the microphones of various French media, including France 3." It is thanks to these men and women that they work 24 hours a day, seven days a week, including an Easter morning like this one, that we will be able to provide the vaccines we need and that will allow us to achieve collective immunity for July 14 ", that is, for the day of the French national holiday . (ANSA).