Double it in three days.
Emmanuel Macron announced on Sunday that France would finally deliver 60 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines to less developed countries by the end of the year.
Thursday, from the Elysee Palace, he said he had "committed for this year and therefore by the end of 2021, to give 30 million doses", in particular via the Covax device.
60 million doses of vaccine, yes, but which ones and when?
The terms remain unclear for the moment, whether for the products concerned as for the delivery schedule.
Bercy replied that this will concern "all the vaccines that we have in the portfolio", whether they are adenovirus or messenger RNA, but that "the distribution key is not [yet] known".
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A glance at the last table of deliveries, transmitted this Monday morning by the Ministry of Health, allows to get a first idea.
France plans to receive no less than 238 million doses from the second half of this year, including 45 million from Pfizer and as many from Moderna.
AstraZeneca and Janssen follow, just under 30 million each.
CureVac and Sanofi should for their part make their first deliveries, estimated at 45 million doses each by the end of December.
But beware: as the past months have shown, all these figures should be taken with caution because they are subject to many factors that are difficult to anticipate: industrial delays, potentially serious adverse effects that appear, etc.
1.7 million by the end of June
The distribution will also depend, of course, on how a particular vaccine is accepted in France. The government risks, for example, finding itself very quickly with millions of AstraZeneca doses on its hands. Just a few thousand people receive it for the first time each day, and there is already enough stock to cover the remaining second injections. Janssen, also reserved for the 55 years and over because of the risk (very rare) of atypical thrombosis, could quickly undergo the same disenchantment.
No further details have yet been announced regarding the timing of deliveries by the end of the year.
The African Union will receive 5 million doses "by the end of the summer", simply indicated Emmanuel Macron on Sunday.
A few days earlier, his Twitter account displayed an infographic reading the various African countries receiving AstraZeneca vaccines by the end of June, for a total of 1.7 million doses.
Vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate.
Show solidarity.
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"The schedule will depend on the deliveries made by each laboratory," Bercy is assured, adding to have "the objective of rapidly increasing the volumes given at the end of the summer and to ramp up throughout the period. autumn ". For the moment, the Directorate General of Health does not detail, month by month, how many doses France will receive in the second half of the year.
