{"id":30258,"date":"2021-03-27T17:00:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-27T08:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2021\/mar\/27\/vaccine-covid-uk-serum-institute-adar-poonawalla"},"modified":"2021-03-27T17:00:07","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T08:00:07","slug":"vaccine-prince-the-indian-billionaire-set-to-make-covid-jabs-for-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30258","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Vaccine prince&#8217;: the Indian billionaire set to make Covid jabs for the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Serum Institute boss Adar Poonawalla has rented a Mayfair mansion for \u00a350,000 a week<\/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 AstraZeneca vaccine has made Prof Sarah Gilbert \u2013 who led the Oxford team that created it \u2013 one of the UK\u2019s most famous modern scientists and turned the Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical company into a household name.<\/p>\n<p>But almost half of all the AstraZeneca shots, destined for the arms of hundreds of millions of people around the world, are being produced by a 40-year-old Indian billionaire with a penchant for private jets and Picassos.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2021\/mar\/27\/vaccine-covid-uk-serum-institute-adar-poonawalla\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serum Institute boss Adar Poonawalla has rented a Mayfair mansion for \u00a350,000 a weekCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe AstraZeneca vaccine has made Prof Sarah Gilbert \u2013 who led the Oxford team that created it \u2013 one of the U&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2043,"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":[1640,6,346,62,647,79,61,52,565,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astrazeneca","category-business","category-health","category-india","category-pharmaceuticals-industry","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-vaccines-and-immunisation","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30258","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\/2043"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30259,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30258\/revisions\/30259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}