{"id":114674,"date":"2021-02-22T14:54:39","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T06:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=114674"},"modified":"2021-02-22T14:54:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T06:54:41","slug":"covid-19-vaccine-giant-asks-for-worlds-patience-says-told-to-prioritise-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=114674","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Vaccine giant asks for world&#8217;s patience, says told to prioritise India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/1-92.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/1-92.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>NEW DELHI, Feb 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The world\u2019s biggest vaccine maker,<br>India\u2019s Serum Institute, has urged other countries to be \u201cpatient\u201d about it<br>supplying anti-coronavirus shots, saying it has been instructed to prioritise<br>its home market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDear countries &amp; governments, as you await #COVISHIELD supplies, I humbly request you to please be patient,\u201d Serum chief Adar Poonawalla tweeted on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c@SerumInstIndia has been directed to prioritise the huge needs of India<br>and along with that balance the needs of the rest of the world. We are trying our best.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Serum, from its sprawling facility in Pune in western India, is producing<br>hundreds of millions of doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many countries around the world, particularly poorer nations, are relying<br>heavily on the company for supplies of the vaccine, and it has already<br>shipped millions of doses abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Serum Institute also plans to supply 200 million doses to Covax, a<br>World Health Organization-backed effort to procure and distribute<br>inoculations to poor countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poonawalla did not say who had told the firm to prioritise India, or<br>whether the instructions were new.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India\u2019s aim of inoculating 300 million people by July is falling well<br>behind schedule with just over 11 million shots given so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The problems however are thought to lie more with not enough people coming forward for the vaccinations rather than problems with supplies of the shots. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, Feb 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The world\u2019s biggest vaccine maker,India\u2019s Serum Institute, has urged other countries to be \u201cpatient\u201d about itsupplying anti-coronavirus shots, saying it has been instructed to prioritiseits home market. \u201cDear countries &amp; governments, as you await #COVISHIELD supplies, I humbly request you to please be patient,\u201d Serum chief Adar Poonawalla tweeted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":114675,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114674"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/114675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}