Pannier-Runacher said she had therefore begun talks with Sanofi to act as a sub-contractor for other firms while it completed its own Covid jabs.
Sanofi itself told AFP that it was evaluating “the technical feasibility of temporarily carrying out some production stages to support other makers of Covid-19 vaccines,” without naming either BioNTech or Janssen.Pannier-Runacher said the main question was whether Sanofi had the spare capacity to make the doses in three to five months, with active ingredients adding another a few months, in a process “that usually takes 12 to 18 months.
Delpharm, a French sub-contractor for the pharmaceutical industry, said in November that it would produce the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine in its factory in northwestern France.Recipharm, another sub-contractor, will be producing the vaccine developed by Moderna starting late February or early March, Pannier-Runacher said last week.
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