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billion) order for up to 190 million doses of a coronavirus vaccine in development at French company Valneva. The new deal firms up an earlier agreement in principle with the UK in July that covered up to 100 million doses of VLA2001 , a purified inactivated SARS-CoV-2 vaccine that is expected to require a two-dose vaccination regimen.
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