{"id":326893,"date":"2020-09-27T09:41:31","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T09:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=326893"},"modified":"2020-09-27T09:41:31","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T09:41:31","slug":"a-proud-moment-for-india-adar-poonawalla-praises-pm-modis-vaccine-offer-to-global-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/a-proud-moment-for-india-adar-poonawalla-praises-pm-modis-vaccine-offer-to-global-community\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A proud moment for India\u2019: Adar Poonawalla praises PM Modi&#8217;s vaccine offer to global community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-326894 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/adar-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"544\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/adar-1.jpg 544w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/adar-1-300x277.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/adar-1-455x420.jpg 455w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 544px) 100vw, 544px\" \/>Adar Poonawalla, the CEO of the Serum Institute of India, on Sunday praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s speech at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) over his COVID-19 vaccine offer to the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Poonawalla said the Prime Minister\u2019s arrangements for the country will take care of all the needs of the Indian people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe share and applaud your vision @narendramodi ji, on providing vaccines to the global community. It is a proud moment for India, thank you for your leadership and support. It is clear that all your arrangements for India will take care of all needs for the Indian people,\u201d Poonawala tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This came a day after Adar had asked the government if they had\u00a0Rs\u00a080,000 crore to buy and distribute the vaccine to everyone in India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cQuick question; will the government of India have 80,000 crores available, over the next one year? Because that&#8217;s what @MoHFW_INDIA needs, to buy and distribute the vaccine to everyone in India. This is the next concerning challenge we need to tackle,\u201d Adar tweeted on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI ask this question, because we need to plan and guide, vaccine manufacturers both in India and overseas to service the needs of our country in terms of procurement and distribution,\u201d Adar added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">PM Modi, in his address to the 75th session of the UN General Assembly, said, \u201cEven during these very difficult times of a raging pandemic, the pharma industry of India had provided medicines to more than 150 countries. As the largest vaccine producing country of the world, I want to assure the global community that India\u2019s vaccine production and delivery capacity will be used to help all humanity in fighting this crisis.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adar Poonawalla, the CEO of the Serum Institute of India, on Sunday praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s speech at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) over his COVID-19 vaccine offer to the world. Poonawalla said the Prime Minister\u2019s arrangements for the country will take care of all the needs of the Indian people. \u201cWe share [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":326894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[13487,316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326895,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326893\/revisions\/326895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/326894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}