{"id":28425,"date":"2021-02-14T14:00:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T05:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/feb\/14\/we-took-a-huge-risk-the-indian-firm-making-more-covid-jabs-than-anyone"},"modified":"2021-02-14T14:00:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T05:00:32","slug":"we-took-a-huge-risk-the-indian-firm-making-more-covid-jabs-than-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28425","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We took a huge risk&#8217;: the Indian firm making more Covid jabs than anyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adar Poonawalla, chief executive of the Serum Institute of India, on vaccines, regulation and what comes next<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Adar Poonawalla, 40, is the chief executive of the Serum Institute of India (SII), the Pune-based, family-owned vaccine manufacturer that is producing more Covid-19 vaccines by dose than any other in the world. For now it\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/09\/a-series-of-knocks-oxfordastrazenecas-bumpy-road-to-covid-vaccine-confidence\">the Oxford\/AstraZeneca vaccine<\/a> rolling off its production lines, but SII has signed contracts with three other developers \u2013 Novavax, Codagenix and SpyBiotech \u2013 all of which have candidates in the works. <\/p>\n<p><em>Did you ever imagine you would be making vaccines for a global pandemic?<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/feb\/14\/we-took-a-huge-risk-the-indian-firm-making-more-covid-jabs-than-anyone\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adar Poonawalla, chief executive of the Serum Institute of India, on vaccines, regulation and what comes nextCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAdar Poonawalla, 40, is the chief executive of the Serum Institute of India (SII), &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1306,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1066,59,62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-global-development","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28428,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28425\/revisions\/28428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}