Adar Poonawalla, the CEO of the world's largest vaccine manufacturer Serum Institute of India, on Thursday congratulated new health minister Mansukh Mandaviya and said his company is looking forward to the new health minister's leadership, navigating through the Covid-19 pandemic. The Congress criticised the decision and said the former health minister has been made a scapegoat. With former health minister Dr Harsh Vardhan too, Serum shared a close relationship. Before the Covid-19 pamdemic, in 2019, Harsh Vardhan had inaugurated Serum Instiute of India's Manjri plant. In 2020, Dr Vardhan inaugurated the country's first pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, developed by Serum.

Source: Hindustan Times July 08, 2021 11:10 UTC