Emmanuel Macron will on Tuesday on a site of the pharmaceutical group Sanofi, near Lyon, to “support the research and production of vaccines” within the framework of the fight against the coronavirus, said Friday the Elysée palace.
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This movement on the website of Marcy-l’etoile (Rhône) will be followed by a video conference with the representatives of the private laboratories in the afternoon at the Elysée palace, said the presidency. Scheduled at 17 hours, this meeting will provide an opportunity to exchange views on the state of research and the principles that should guide action in research and the production of the vaccine as the global access, fair remuneration and the allocation of production capacity,” said the presidency.
The trip to Marcy-L’etoile will take place a month after the controversy created by remarks of the chief executive officer of Sanofi, Paul Hudson, according to which the group would distribute a future vaccine against the Covid-19 first in the United States, which have invested $ 30 million to support his research. Emmanuel Macron was “moved” to this statement and was called again to this vaccine or to “extract the laws of the market”. He was then received at the Elysée Paul Hudson and Serge Weinberg, the chairman of the board of directors of Sanofi, which had provided shared access to the vaccine.
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