{"id":146597,"date":"2020-12-29T00:54:09","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T19:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=146597"},"modified":"2020-12-29T00:54:09","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T19:24:09","slug":"already-produced-40-50-million-dosages-of-covishield-vaccine-serum-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/12\/29\/already-produced-40-50-million-dosages-of-covishield-vaccine-serum-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"Already produced 40-50 million dosages of Covishield vaccine: Serum Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NEW DELHI, 28 Dec:<\/strong> Serum Institute of India has already produced around 50 million dosages of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine &#8216;Covishield&#8217; and plans to scale it up to 100 million by March next year, even as it awaits approval for emergency use authorization, a top company official said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The company, which has launched the country&#8217;s first indigenously developed pneumococcal vaccine Pneumosil for children, said the scaling up of the Covid-19 vaccine would also depend on the overall demand from the government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In order to introduce an urgently needed vaccine against Covid-19 in India, Serum Institute of India (SII), the world&#8217;s largest vaccine manufacturer, has entered into a collaboration with the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca to manufacture Covishield.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Pune-based company has applied to the drugs controller general of India (DCGI), seeking emergency use authorization for Covid-19 vaccine in the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We have already manufactured 40-50 million dosages of the vaccine. The rollout of the vaccine is expected to be a bit slow in the initial phase due to logistics issue and is expected to pick up once things get sorted,&#8221; SII CEO Adar Poonawalla told reporters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the company plans to ramp up the vaccine production to 100 million dosages per month by March next year with the coming up of SII&#8217;s third manufacturing facility.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Poonawalla said the Oxford\/AstraZeneca vaccine could be approved in the UK soon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By next month, the vaccine can also be approved in India, he noted. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, 28 Dec: Serum Institute of India has already produced around 50 million dosages of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine &#8216;Covishield&#8217; and plans to scale it up to 100 million by March next year, even as it awaits approval for emergency use authorization, a top company official said on Monday. The company, which has launched [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-146597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}