{"id":30003,"date":"2021-03-21T19:25:02","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T10:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/21\/brazil-saudi-and-morocco-told-of-delay-in-covid-jabs-from-india"},"modified":"2021-03-22T00:35:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T15:35:08","slug":"brazil-saudi-arabia-and-morocco-told-of-delay-in-covid-jabs-from-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30003","title":{"rendered":"Brazil, Saudi Arabia and Morocco \u2018told of delay in Covid jabs from India\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Serum Institute reportedly citing demand in India and fire at plant to explain lack of AstraZeneca vaccine<\/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>The world\u2019s largest vaccine maker, the Serum Institute of India (SII), has told Brazil, Morocco and Saudi Arabia that further supplies of the Oxford\/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine will be delayed, <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/sii-fails-to-deliver-new-delhis-vaccine-diplomacy-hits-hurdle\/articleshow\/81610596.cms\">according to the Times of India<\/a>, citing a letter from the institute\u2019s president.<\/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\">Adar Poonawalla<\/a> is said to have written to Brazil to say that, \u201cregrettably\u201d, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-india-55753586\">a January fire<\/a> at one of its manufacturing facilities had \u201ccaused obstacles\u201d and the institute would not be able to fulfil its commitments. Similar communications were sent to Morocco and Saudi Arabia, the paper reported.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/21\/brazil-saudi-and-morocco-told-of-delay-in-covid-jabs-from-india\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serum Institute reportedly citing demand in India and fire at plant to explain lack of AstraZeneca vaccineCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe world\u2019s largest vaccine maker, the Serum Institute of India (SII), has told Brazil&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[452,1066,62,1240,398,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brazil","category-coronavirus","category-india","category-morocco","category-saudi-arabia","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\/30003","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30003"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30019,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30003\/revisions\/30019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}