PARIS (Reuters) – Moderna Inc’s COVID-19 vaccine will show up in France on Monday, French Prime Minister Jean Castex said, as the nation steps up its vaccination drive following a slow start.
Castex and Health Minister Olivier Veran went to a health centre in Tarbes, southwestern France, on Saturday as part of the government’s campaign to accelerate France’s vaccine rollout.
Vaccinations against the coronavirus also took place at a centre in Taverny, near Paris. French medical regulator HAS stated on Friday it had actually approved the Moderna vaccine, having actually previously cleared Pfizer/BioNTech’s competitor.
The French presidency likewise said on Saturday that President Emmanuel Macron had actually held telephone call 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 stated on Monday it would produce at least 600 million dosages of its COVID-19 vaccine in 2021, up by 100 million doses from its previous forecast.
Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta, Nicolas Delame and Michel Rose; Editing by David Holmes
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