Fire breaks out at Serum Institute; 5 dead, vaccine production not affected
There is no impact on the Covishield vaccine manufacturing as the fire broke out in a facility away from the place where the coronavirus vaccines are being produced.
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Five persons died and nine were evacuated from a building in the Serum Institute of India s Manjari premises here after a fire broke out at the facility on Thursday, police said.
Covishield vaccine production won t be hit due to the fire,
Serum Institute of India CEO Adar Poonawalla said.
The Manjari facility is where the Covishield vaccine used in the nationwide inoculation drive against the pandemic is being produced. The building where the fire broke out is part of the under-construction site of the Serum facility and is one km away from the Covishield manufacturing unit, sources said.
Serum Institute of India (SII) has offered compensation of Rs 25 lakh in addition to the mandated amount to families of persons who died in a fire at the company's premises in Pune. Five men died after a fire broke out in a five-storeyed under-construction building at the firm's Manjari premises in Pune on Thursday. All were construction workers whose bodies were recovered by fire brigade personnel from the fifth floor..
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