PARIS (Reuters) – Moderna Inc’s COVID-19 vaccine will get here in France on Monday, French Prime Minister Jean Castex said, as the country steps up its vaccination drive following a sluggish start.
Castex and Health Minister Olivier Veran went to a health centre in Tarbes, southwestern France, on Saturday as part of the government’s project to accelerate France’s vaccine rollout.
Vaccinations against the coronavirus likewise happened at a centre in Taverny, near Paris. French medical regulator HAS said on Friday it had actually authorized the Moderna vaccine, having formerly cleared Pfizer/BioNTech’s rival.
The French presidency also stated on Saturday that President Emmanuel Macron had held phone conversations on Friday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to discuss Europe’s vaccine method.
U.S.-based Moderna said on Monday it would produce a minimum of 600 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine in 2021, up by 100 million dosages from its previous projection.
Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta, Nicolas Delame and Michel Rose; Modifying by David Holmes
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