NEW DELHI: A fire broke out Thursday at India’s Serum Institute, theworld’s largest maker of vaccines, local TV footage showed, but mediareports said production of the coronavirus vaccine was not affected.
Serum Institute is producing millions of doses of the Covishieldcoronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University.
Television channels showed a huge cloud of grey smoke above the site inPune in western India. The reports said that the blaze was at aconstruction site at the large facility.
Read Top Stories
The Indian firm was not immediately available for comment.
