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Serum Institute of India Chief Executive Officer Adar Poonawalla. | Adar Poonawalla/ Twitter
Serum Institute of India Chief Executive officer Adar Poonawalla on Saturday said that he will be returning to India, hours after his interview published in
The Times noted that he had left the country because of threats related to the delivery of Covid-19 vaccines.
Poonawalla is chief executive officer of the Serum Institute, the local maker of the Covid-19 vaccine, Covishield, developed by Oxford University and pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca.
In the interview to the British daily, Poonawalla said that he was under pressure for the delivery of Covid-19 vaccines as its demand was constantly increasing. “I don’t want to be in a situation where you are just trying to do your job, and just because you can’t supply the needs of X, Y or Z you really don’t want to guess what they are going to do,” he said.