(Bloomberg) --

Sanofi’s messenger RNA-based vaccine won’t be ready this year, the French weekly Journal du Dimanche said in a Q&A interview with the French drugmaker’s chief executive, Paul Hudson.

A company official had said on Feb. 8 that it would likely be ready at the end of the year or the start of 2022.

Hudson noted in the interview that Sanofi will also start trials on mRNA-based vaccines for the flu.

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