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Rise in COVID cases: Serum Institute restarts manufacturing of Covishield

Rise in COVID cases: Serum Institute restarts manufacturing of Covishield
Rise in COVID cases: Serum Institute restarts manufacturing of Covishield

New Delhi: Serum Institute of India (SII) CEO Adar Poonawalla on Wednesday said it has restarted manufacturing of COVID-19 vaccine Covishield amid rising numbers of cases of the virus infection. He said the company already has six million booster doses of Covovax vaccine available and adults must take the booster shot.

Reacting to reports of COVID-19 vaccines shortage, he said manufacturers are ready but there has been no demand.
“Just as a precaution, at risk we have done it so that people have a Covishield as a choice if they want it,” Poonawalla told a news agency on restarting of manufacturing of the vaccine. The company had stopped manufacturing of Covishield in December 2021.
On Covovax which has been approved as a booster dose for 18-years and above, he said, “We have six million doses ready but the demand is exactly zero.”
Covovax booster is now on the CoWin app, he said. Covovax is manufactured through technology transfer from Novavax. 

Serum Institute of India was founded in 1966 by Dr. Cyrus Poonawalla. The company is now the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer by number of doses produced and sold globally (more than 1.5 billion doses) which includes Polio vaccine, Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis, Hib, BCG, r-Hepatitis B, Measles, Mumps, Rubella as well as Pneumococcal and Covid-19 vaccines. Vaccines manufactured by the Serum Institute are accredited by the World Health Organization, Geneva and are being used in around 170 countries across the globe in their national immunization programs. The company has modern laboratories with high-tech machinery and computerized equipment for the production and testing of its life saving biologicals.

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