<p>The Covid-19 vaccine being manufactured by the Serum Institute of India (SII) will be available by January-end next year, NCP supremo and Rajya Sabha member Sharad Pawar said.</p>.<p>“The vaccine will come by January-end 2021,” said Pawar, a four-time Maharashtra Chief Minister and two-term Union Agriculture Minister, after visiting the SII facility in Pune on Friday.</p>.<p>The 79-year-old leader also said that he got a BCG (Bacillus Calmette-Guerin) vaccine administered at the SII on Friday morning to increase immunity. “It increases immunity and I got it administered,” the NCP chief told reporters in Pune.</p>.<p>It may be mentioned that Dr Cyrus S Poonawalla, the Chairman of SII and his son Adar Poonawala, the CEO of world's leading vaccine company, shares an excellent relationship with the Pawar family.</p>.<p>This is Pawar’s second visit to the SII facility in Pune in recent times – the other being on 1 August.</p>
<p>The Covid-19 vaccine being manufactured by the Serum Institute of India (SII) will be available by January-end next year, NCP supremo and Rajya Sabha member Sharad Pawar said.</p>.<p>“The vaccine will come by January-end 2021,” said Pawar, a four-time Maharashtra Chief Minister and two-term Union Agriculture Minister, after visiting the SII facility in Pune on Friday.</p>.<p>The 79-year-old leader also said that he got a BCG (Bacillus Calmette-Guerin) vaccine administered at the SII on Friday morning to increase immunity. “It increases immunity and I got it administered,” the NCP chief told reporters in Pune.</p>.<p>It may be mentioned that Dr Cyrus S Poonawalla, the Chairman of SII and his son Adar Poonawala, the CEO of world's leading vaccine company, shares an excellent relationship with the Pawar family.</p>.<p>This is Pawar’s second visit to the SII facility in Pune in recent times – the other being on 1 August.</p>