University of Queensland vaccine ‘terminated over false-positive HIV results’

The federal government has reportedly canned a deal to buy tens of millions of doses of a potential coronavirus vaccine being developed in Australia.

The University of Queensland and biotechnology company CSL have abandoned trials of their COVID-19 vaccine candidate after some participants returned false-positive results for another illness – HIV – as reported by the SMH.

The parties will provide an update on their v451 vaccine at 9am.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk told Sunrise she…