India: fire at Serum Institute of India, the world's largest vaccine manufacturer

A fire broke out at the Serum Institute of India, the world's largest vaccine manufacturer, on Thursday, according to images on local television, but media clarified that production of Covid-19 vaccines was not affected .

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Indian television channels showed a huge cloud of gray smoke above the site of the Serum Institute of India, in Pune (west) where millions of doses of the vaccine against the Covishield coronavirus, developed by AstraZeneca and the University are currently produced. from Oxford.