Mr Adar Poonawalla gave himself a head start in the race to produce a Covid-19 vaccine.
In April, Mr Poonawalla, 39, announced that his company, Serum Institute of India, the world's largest vaccine manufacturer, would start cranking out vaccine doses being developed by the University of Oxford and the global biopharma company AstraZeneca.
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