Covishield Row: Amid the ongoing controversy over the potential side effects of the Covishield vaccine, the parents of a young woman who died allegedly after being given the Covishield vaccine are set to file a case against the Serum Institute of India (SII), the world’s largest vaccine maker, and the British pharma giant AstraZeneca that had developed it during the Covid-19 pandemic. 

This comes after the British-Swedish vaccine maker AstraZeneca admitted in the UK court about Covishield's potential link to Thrombosis with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome (TTS), a rare condition involving blood clotting and low platelet count. The AstraZeneca vaccine was manufactured in India by the Serum Institute of India, which is yet to intervene in the matter.

Following massive backlash and amid a class action lawsuit, the UK-based company reiterated its commitment to patient safety. However, the UK government which secured the UK-Swedish company from legal action has not commented on the matter. 

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Taking to X, formerly Twitter, Venugopalan Govindan, father of Karunya, who died after vaccination, said that AstraZeneca's admission was "too late," and came following various deaths. Govindan in his post said that the AstraZeneca and Serum Institute should have stopped the vaccine supply after 15 European countries had restricted its usage over deaths from blood clots. 

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“The grieving parents are fighting for justice in various courts and for reasons best known to our judicial system we are not getting a hearing for our cases,” he wrote in a post on X.

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“If sufficient remedies aren't obtained, for the sake of justice and to prevent recurrence of this atrocity that was perpetrated in the name of public health, we will file fresh cases against any and all of those perpetrators because of whose actions the deaths of our children ensued. Eight of the victims' families have connected and I am echoing the common sentiments of all of us,”  Govindan wrote on the microblogging site. 

In another post, he also tagged Adar Poonawalla, CEO of the Serum Institute of India, and asked him to answer for the lives lost. “Serum Institute of India and Adar Poonawalla will have to answer for their sins. For the lives lost," he wrote on X. 


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