PARIS - French healthcare company Sanofi will provide COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing support to U.S. peer Johnson & Johnson, Sanofi said on Monday.
Once authorized, Sanofi will provide Johnson & Johnson access to the established infrastructure and expertise of its vaccine manufacturing plant in Marcy l'Etoile, France, to formulate and fill vials of Johnson & Johnson's Janssen COVID-19 vaccine candidate in 2021 at a rate of approximately 12 million doses per month.
(Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta; editing by Jason Neely) ((sudip.kargupta@thomsonreuters.com; +33 1 49 49 53 84;))
