Australian Govt Cancels 50 Million COVID-19 Vaccines for Producing False Positive HIV Diagnosis By Pablo Luna / Saturday, 12 Dec 2020 12:32PM
A coronavirus vaccine developed by CSL Limited in association with the University of Queensland has been rejected by the Australian government after the trial participants returned with false-positive HIV diagnosis, developers announced, CNN reports.
The government announced on Friday that it canceled an order of over 50 million of these vaccines and would be replacing them with vaccines developed by other drugmakers instead. Therefore, the government ordered 20 million doses of vaccines developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca, while another 11 million doses would come from Novavax Inc.