COVID-19 vaccine supply not affected due to Serum Institute fire: Adar Poonawalla
COVID-19 vaccine supply not affected due to Serum Institute fire: Adar Poonawalla
ANI / Updated: Jan 22, 2021, 19:14 IST
Pune: The supply of
COVID-19 vaccines has not been affected due to the recent fire that broke out at the
Serum Institute of India s (SII) facility in Pune, confirmed the company s CEO Adar
Poonawalla on Friday. The supply of COVID-19 vaccine will not be affected due to the fire. No actual vaccine was being made at that facility. We were lucky that the incident happened in a different building. The extent of the financial damage is more than Rs 1,000 crores,
Thackeray visits Serum Institute after fire, loss pegged at Rs 1K cr
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Pune, Jan 22 : Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Friday visited the Serum Institute of India (SII) where a fire at its semi-ready Manjari complex claimed five lives while inflicting an estimated loss of Rs 1,000 cr to the global vaccine giant.
Thackeray visited the SII facility that was gutted on Thursday and also met the company Chairman Cyrus Poonawalla and his son Adar. We have ordered a thorough probe. There cannot be any conclusions till the full investigations are complete and the report is available. Then we will know whether it was an accident or sabotage, he said.
Serum Institute fire accident, vaccine safe: Uddhav Thackeray
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Published: Friday, January 22, 2021, 18:19 [IST]
Mumbai, Jan 22: Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Friday said that whether the fire at the Serum Institute of India (SII) was an accident or sabotage will be known only after the probe gets over.
Uddhav Thackeray
Five men died in the fire that broke out in a five- storeyed under-construction building in the SII s Manjari premises in Pune on Thursday.
Addressing a press conference after visiting the site of the fire, Thackeray said, Let the investigation get completed. It is not correct to say anything now. After the probe gets over, we will know whether it was an accident or sabotage.
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Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray Visits Serum Institute After Fire, Loss Pegged at Rs 1,000 Crore
Maharashtra CM Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray today visited the Serum Institute of India premises at Hadapsar in Pune and inspected the site that caught fire yesterday. He also spoke to Adar Poonawala. (Image: Office of Uddhav Thackeray Twitter handle)
The Chief Minister said that the Poonawallas have repeatedly assured that there would be no impact on the Covishield vaccine production and rollout which will continue unhindered.
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Friday visited the Serum Institute of India (SII) where a fire at its semi-ready Manjari complex claimed five lives while inflicting an estimated loss of Rs 1,000 crore to the global vaccine giant.