Lucknow District and Sessions Court has summoned seven people on April 1, including Serum Institute of India CEO Adar Poonawalla, in a case filed over alleged non-production of antibodies after the first dose of Covishield.
A man in Lucknow filed a complaint against Serum Institute of India CEO Adar Poonawalla and others, alleging that he did not develop antibodies despite taking a Covishield dose.
The complaint was filed at Aashiana police station in Lucknow. Others named in the complaint are DCGA director, Joint Secretary of Health Ministry Luv Agarwal, ICMR director Balaram Bhargava, National Health Mission director Aparna Upadhyay, among others.
The complainant, Pratap Chandra, said in the complaint that he received the first dose of Covishield on April 8. Chandra said he was supposed to receive the second dose 28 days later but on the said day he was told that the date for the second dose had been extended by six weeks. Later, the government revised the time gap between the two doses to 12 weeks.
Chandra said he was not feeling well after receiving the first jab. Citing ICMR director general Balram Bhargav’s quotes in media where he had said “good levels of antibodies are produced in the body after the first dose of Covishield”, the complainant took a Covid Antibody GT test from a government-approved lab.
