France cries foul after pharma giant Sanofi says US to get coronavirus vaccine first

PARIS - The French government cried foul on Thursday after its home-grown pharmaceutical giant Sanofi said it would reserve first shipments of any Covid-19 vaccine for the United States, slamming the move as"unacceptable" in a crisis that has killed nearly 300,000 people worldwide.

"That's how it will be because they've invested to try and protect their population, to restart their economy," he said."I've been campaigning in Europe to say the US will get vaccines first." The EU insisted on Thursday that any vaccine against the virus must be available fairly to all countries."The vaccine against Covid-19 should be a global public good and its access needs to be equitable and universal," European Commission spokesman Stefan de Keersmaecker told reporters.

Around 140 former and current world leaders and health experts on Thursday called on officials to ensure that any vaccines founds be made available"for all people, in all countries, free of charge"."Now is not the time to allow the interests of the wealthiest corporations and governments to be placed before the universal need to save lives," the signatories said ahead of the World Health Organisation's annual meeting next week.

Their project is being funded in part by the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority of the US Department of Health and Human Services.

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