Canadian COVID-19 vaccine manufacturer Medicago Inc. shutting down

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Medicago Inc., the Quebec-based drug manufacturer of a Canadian COVID-19 vaccine and other plant-based drugs, is being shut down by parent company Mitsubishi Chemical Group.

including cancers, Crohn's disease, arthritis, multiple sclerosis and COVID-19.

In October 2020, before the vaccine was approved, the federal government penned a deal to buy up to 76 million doses of the drug, in addition to providing $173 million in funding to support the vaccine's development and the construction of a new Quebec City manufacturing plant.

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