{"id":8189,"date":"2025-03-11T15:06:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T19:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=8189"},"modified":"2025-03-11T15:31:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T19:31:35","slug":"federal-government-cancels-deal-with-us-company-to-make-covid-19-vaccine-in-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/federal-government-cancels-deal-with-us-company-to-make-covid-19-vaccine-in-montreal\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal government cancels deal with US company to make COVID-19 vaccine in Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government has cancelled a deal with vaccine maker Novavax to manufacture COVID-19 vaccine in Montreal, the company said in a filing with the U.S. securities regulator. <\/p>\n<p>Novavax told the Securities and Exchange Commission that the Canadian government cancelled the deal March&nbsp;7 after the company failed to meet a Dec.&nbsp;31, 2024 deadline to get regulatory approval for a COVID-19 vaccine using ingredients made at the federally-owned Biologics Manufacturing Centre in Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>The Maryland-based company said it will keep US$556 million it was paid for future doses of the vaccine, with another US$28 million being returned to the Canadian government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government has cancelled a deal with vaccine maker Novavax to manufacture COVID-19 vaccine in Montreal, the company said in a filing with the U.S. securities regulator. <\/p>\n<p>Novavax told the Securities and Exchange Commission that the Canadian government cancelled the deal March&nbsp;7 after the company failed to meet a Dec.&nbsp;31, 2024 deadline to get regulatory approval for a COVID-19 vaccine using ingredients made at the federally-owned Biologics Manufacturing Centre in Montreal.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/federal-government-cancels-deal-with-us-company-to-make-covid-19-vaccine-in-montreal\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Federal government cancels deal with US company to make COVID-19 vaccine in Montreal<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[96,18,178,254,70,14,1059,51,15],"class_list":["post-8189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-montreal","tag-novavax","tag-quebec","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-tiohtiake","tag-united-states","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8191,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8189\/revisions\/8191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}