Hyderabad: Pandemic Covid-19 may have brought the world to traffic jams, but Chairman of Bharat Biotech and Managing Director Krishna Ella lived life in accelerated mode.
He believed that he lost 10 years in his life in the last 18 months thanks to stress joining hands with the excitement of developing Covaxin.
In a face-to-face interview, Ella opened to TOI about the sensation of developing the original Indian Covid-19 vaccine first, but also talked about dangers and controversies that organized companies throughout.
“The last 18 months are difficult.
I haven’t struggled for anything in the last 25 years (because he founded Bharat Biotech),” he said.
“I feel as if I have lost 10 years of peace in this battle.” He said that even though Covaxin was not the first vaccine that had been developed by his company, it was certainly the first time Bharat Biotech was under a constant spotlight.
“For Covaxin, we work with a 1,000-liter fermentor with a highly high life virus density so that it is enough to infect the entire India.
It is dangerous.” Indicates that every death is due to infection in the company, it is also when there is no vaccine, it will be a disaster, Explain: “Today, we are vaccinated but there are no vaccines.
So, for about 4-5 months, around 20-25 important employees we cannot go to their family.
We took several apartments close to our factory (Genome Valley, Hyderabad) And put them there until we have a study of animal challenges that show vaccines offer 100% protection.
“So how does he deal with intense supervision? Ella said she turned like she reached the house and didn’t take any call.
Instead he spent his time doing what he liked the most – reading about the latest advancements in the science world.