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India’s COVID-19 vaccine manufacturer Serum Institute hosts UK delegation

February 8, 2021, 6:44 PM

Karan Pareek | Pune

The Serum Institute of India, which manufactured Oxfords COVID-19 vaccine Covishield, on Monday, hosted a delegation from the United Kingdom at their headquarters, in Pune.
Liz Truss, who is UKs Secretary of State for International Trade, led the delegation. CEO of Serum Institute Adar Poonawalla, took to Twitter and wrote, It was an honour to have the Secretary of State for International Trade, UK, @trusslizand a delegation visit our headquarters @SerumInstIndia.
We discussed how to further enhance the existing relationship between India and the UK on manufacturing and innovation in the healthcare space, he added.
Nearly a month ago, the Serum Institutes Pune building caught fire and a few workers, had lost their lives. As per reports, the COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing labs were safe and the production wasn’t delayed due to the accident.
Poonawalla issued a public statement and said that the families of the dead would be given a financial grant to compensate for their loss.

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Active COVID cases near 30,000 mark in Nagpur

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4 years ago

January 25, 2022

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur’s COVID-19 tally, on Tuesday, January 25, reached 5,43,064 (till 5 pm) as 4028 (972 from rural and 2956 from city) new cases were recorded in a single day.

Also, active COVID cases, as on Tuesday, could be seen inching closer to 30,000 mark in the district.

Six people lost their lives (one from rural and five from city) on Tuesday. Till now, 10,183 people have lost their lives due to COVID-19 in the district. Total tests taken were 11,377.

While patients who recovered on Tuesday were 2519, the total number of recovered patients stood at 503729.

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Nagpur reports 90 COVID cases in past 24 hours

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4 years ago

January 2, 2022

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur’s COVID-19 tally on Sunday, January 2 reached 4,94,193 (till 5 pm) as 90 (73 city, nine rural) more people tested positive for the virus.

Also, five patients recovered on Sunday taking the number of recoveries to 4,83,664.

Till now, 10123 people have lost their lives due to COVID in the district. As of now, there are 406 active COVID patients in the district.

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ALARMING! Nagpur reports 88 COVID cases in past 24 hours

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4 years ago

December 31, 2021

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur registered 88 (81 from city) new COVID-19 positive cases on Friday, December 31. Nagpur previously had recorded as minimum as six cases on December 24.