A consignment of Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine from Moscow has been released. The consignment with the first batch of 150,000 doses set to arrive in India on Saturday. The another three million doses are also scheduled to land by this month in India.
According to information received, the flight is carrying 150,000 doses of the preventive vaccine left Russian shores this morning. It will go under a mandatory approval from the Central Drugs Laboratory, Kasauli before doses of vaccine gets started in nation. The Sputnik V vaccine delivery got approval from both countries after Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a long conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin on April 28. The diplomats based in Moscow say that the conversation was “very warm” between the two leaders with Russia standing with India in this hour of national crisis. Sputnik V is based on human adenoviral vectors, is one of three vaccines that have an efficacy of over 90 per cent against the coronavirus disease, which is caused by SARS-CoV-2. The two-dose vaccine has been developed by the Gamaleya National Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology and is supported by the Russian sovereign wealth fund, Russian Direct Investment Fund or RDIF.
Sputnik V will arrive in a container from Russia in June and some 10 million-plus vaccines in July. New Delhi has asked Moscow for the ramped-up supply of the vaccine as it wants to vaccinate as many Indians as possible in the shortest time.
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