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Coronavirus: fire hits world’s biggest vaccine maker in India; Japan’s Tokyo sees more than 30,000 cases in a month
A fire broke out on Thursday at India’s Serum Institute, the world’s largest maker of vaccines, with television channels showing thick clouds of grey smoke billowing from the site in Pune.The institute is producing millions of doses of the Covishield coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University, but a source said the blaze was at a new plant under construction and “is not going to affect production of the Covid-19 vaccine”.An official at the local fire station said that…