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.
Adar Poonawalla
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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