Govt must protect vaccine makers against lawsuits: Adar Poonawalla
India
Published: Saturday, December 19, 2020, 18:00 [IST]
New Delhi, Dec 19: Vaccine manufacturers need to have protection against all lawsuits for their vaccines especially during a pandemic, Serum Institute of India (SII) Chief Executive Officer Adar Poonawalla has said.
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He also said that the vaccine makers are going to propose this to the government, while speaking at a virtual panel on the challenges of developing a COVID-19 vaccine at the Carnegie India s Global Technology Summit on Friday. We need to have the government indemnify manufacturers, especially vaccine manufacturers, against all lawsuits. In fact, COVAX and other countries have already started talking about that, Poonawalla said.
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The chief of the world s largest vaccine maker has asked the government to indemnify manufacturers against lawsuits. Serum Institute of India CEO Adar Poonawalla has asked the government to protect vaccine-makers from frivolous lawsuits as the company prepares to roll out vaccines to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
Mr Poonawalla s comment comes weeks after a volunteer in Chennai alleged he suffered adverse effects from the Oxford vaccine trials. The Serum Institute of India (SII) defended a legal notice it had sent to the volunteer, saying it wanted to safeguard the reputation of the company which is being unfairly maligned.
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