Unions strike over job cuts at French coronavirus vaccine maker Sanofi

Striking workers gather outside the French pharmaceutical company Sanofi headquarters in Marcy l’Etoile (AP/Laurent Cipriani)

Unions at French drug maker Sanofi have held a one-day strike at the lab where it is developing a Covid-19 vaccine to protest against job cuts.

Some 200 workers with union flags and megaphones gathered outside the entrance to the Sanofi research and development facility in Marcy l’Etoile in central France. They said that hundreds of planned job cuts in France could slow the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.