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Poonawalla gets Covishield jab

Updated on: 17 January,2021 08:45 AM IST  |  Pune
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As the COVID-19 inoculation drive rolled out across India on Saturday, Serum Institute of India CEO Adar Poonawalla joined the healthcare workers in getting the Covishield vaccine shot.

Poonawalla gets Covishield jab

Adar Poonawalla

As the COVID-19 inoculation drive rolled out across India on Saturday, Serum Institute of India CEO Adar Poonawalla joined the healthcare workers in getting the Covishield vaccine shot.


Poonawalla shared a small video of him receiving the jab on Twitter. “I wish India & Sri @narendramodi ji great success in launching the world’s largest COVID vaccination roll-out. 



It brings me great pride that #COVISHIELD is part of this historic effort & to endorse its safety & efficacy, I join our health workers in taking the vaccine myself,” he tweeted. 


Covishield is developed by Oxford University and British-Swedish company AstraZeneca and manufactured by the Pune-based SII

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