Updated Dec 21, 2020 | 08:08 IST
Adar Poonawalla s comment comes weeks after a volunteer in Chennai, who got a vaccine shot, alleged he suffered adverse effects from the Oxford vaccine trials. Government must indemnify vaccine manufacturers against all lawsuits, says Adar Poonawalla | Photo Credit: BCCL
New Delhi: Serum Institute of India CEO Adar Poonawallahas asked the government to indemnify vaccine manufacturers against lawsuits. The chief of the world s largest vaccine maker has asked the government to protect vaccine-makers from frivolous lawsuits as the company prepares to roll out vaccines to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
Poonawalla s comment comes weeks after a volunteer in Chennai, who got a vaccine shot, alleged he suffered adverse effects from the Oxford vaccine trials. Serum Institute defended a legal notice it had sent to the volunteer, saying it wanted to safeguard the reputation of the company which is being unfairly ma
After lawsuit from volunteer, SII chief says govt should protect vaccine makers from frivolous claims
Weeks after a Chennai-based coronavirus vaccine volunteer sued the Serum Institute, Adar Poonawalla said the government should protect the vaccine makers against all lawsuits alleging side-effects and from frivolous claims .
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Serum Institute of India (SII) CEO Adar Poonawalla (Photo: Twitter)
Serum Institute of India CEO Adar Poonawalla said on Saturday that the government should protect the vaccine makers against all lawsuits alleging side-effects. Adar Poonawalla said the government can intervene and protect the vaccine manufacturers from frivolous claims .
Adar Poonawalla s comments come weeks after a Chennai man, who was part of the third phase of clinical trials of a coronavirus vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca-Serum Institute of India, sued SII claiming memory loss, ability to reason and concentrate and personality change after getting the dose.
COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers must be protected from lawsuits: SII CEO Adar Poonawalla
Poonawalla made these comments at an online panel on the challenges of developing a COVID-19 vaccine at the Carnegie India s Global Technology Summit
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Updated: Dec 20, 2020, 07:26 AM IST
The Chief Executive Officer of Serum Institute of India (SII) Adar Poonawalla has expressed his displeasure over lawsuits and claims filed against vaccine makers. He urged the government to protect vaccine makers against lawsuits during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Poonawalla made these comments at an online panel on the challenges of developing a COVID-19 vaccine at the Carnegie India s Global Technology Summit on Friday.
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Govt must indemnify vaccine makers against all lawsuits: Adar Poonawalla
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. 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.
Govt needs to protect vaccine manufacturers against all lawsuits, says SII CEO Adar Poonawalla Last month, SII had rejected allegations of serious side-effects made by a participant in the Covishield vaccine trial in Chennai. The man had also sought Rs 5 crore compensation Adar Poonawalla. Twitter@adarpoonawalla New Delhi: 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.
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