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Two institutes in Pune in various stages of producing and testing a vaccine against coronavirus.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to visit the Serum Institute of India and Gennova Biopharmaceuticals over the weekend to understand the process of vaccine production and distribution.
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Two institutes in Pune in various stages of producing and testing a vaccine against coronavirus.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to visit the Serum Institute of India and Gennova Biopharmaceuticals over the weekend to understand the process of vaccine production and distribution.
While Serum Institute is testing and manufacturing the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine candidate, Gennova Biopharmaceuticals is all set to start Phase 1 human clinical trials of its own vaccine candidate.
Pune Divisional Commissioner Saurabh Rao said that the local administration and police machinery were waiting for official communication about the proposed visit of the Prime Minister to Pune.
Pune District Collector Rajesh Deshmukh also said the administration was waiting for official communication about the PM’s visit.
In view of this, a ‘familiarisation visit’ to Pune of foreign ambassadors and high commissioners on November 27 has been postponed to December 4.
The foreign ambassadors and high commissioners are also expected to visit the Serum Institute of India and Gennova Biopharmaceuticals during their one-day visit to the city.
Local administration officials, however, said they had started preparing the groundwork for the PM’s visit.
Top administrative and police officials from Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad have already held meetings about the various arrangements to be made for the visit of the PM and diplomats to the Serum Institute of India, located in Hadapsar, and Gennova Biopharmaceuticals, located in Hinjewadi.
While final confirmation and the schedule of the PM’s visit was awaited, preparations were underway after preliminary intimation, said, officials.
“We are yet to receive official communication about the visit, but if the visit happens, it will be at the Serum Institute and Gennova Biopharmaceuticals.