The Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry said there is going to be a delay in payments for new applicants to the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program after it detected potential fraud.

Two Lehigh Valley companies that have partnered to develop and manufacture a pair of COVID-19 vaccines said they may have a vaccine to market by spring of next year.

OraSure Technologies of Bethlehem said it expects to launch its COVID-19 rapid antigen in-home self-test by the fourth quarter of this year.

Sanofi Pasteur of Swiftwater, the vaccines global business unit of Sanofi, said it has been awarded a $226 million contract from the U.S. government to expand pandemic influenza preparedness.