UK Terminates COVID-19 Vaccine Deal, But Valneva Can Bounce Back

Two Other Vaccines Show Promise

The UK’s decision has hit Valneva’s share price hard, but its vaccine candidates in Chikungunya and Lyme’s disease should help the firm bounce back.

Valneva Livingston
Production of the COVID-19 vaccine has begun at Valneva's manufacturing facility in Livingston, Scotland.

The UK government has terminated an agreement to acquire 100 million doses of Valneva’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate, citing a “breach of obligations” by the company.

Valneva “strenuously denies” that it has broken any terms of the procurement deal, which until now has been part of...

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