Medical economics

France's Sanofi to cut 1,700 European jobs

Pharmaceutical giant Sanofi said Friday that it would eliminate 1,700 European jobs, including 1,000 in France, as part of a cost-cutting drive announced last December.

Other

French families sue state to recognize surrogate births

The families of surrogate children who have been effectively denied French citizenship have gone to the country's highest court to challenge the law denying birth certificates for babies born abroad.

Vaccination

France to get 1.16 mn COVID vaccine doses by year end

France will receive around 1.16 million COVID-19 vaccine doses by year end, Prime Minister Jean Castex said Wednesday, adding another 2.3 million will arrive in the next two months.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

1.6 million French may be infected with virus: doctors' union

More than 1.6 million of France's 67 million people may have been infected with the new coronavirus to date, according to a projection by general practitioners' union MG France, based on doctors' reports.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

France extends stay-at-home order until at least April 15: PM

France extended its stay-at-home order for all non-essential employees, as well as widespread business closures, until at least April 15 in an effort to curtail the coronavirus outbreak, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said ...

Vaccination

Valneva launches trials of COVID-19 vaccine in UK

French-Austrian biotech firm Valneva said Wednesday it will begin clinical trials of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate in Britain, where the government has already ordered at least 60 million doses.

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