New Delhi, 28th April 2021: India continues to battle against the Coronavirus with two weapons (Covishield and covaxin).
The pace of vaccination in India will gain from May onwards, as the name of a vaccine will be added to India’s vaccination campaign. Yes, there is a possibility that the first batch of Sputnik-V vaccine will arrive in India on 1 May. Explain that Sputnik-V vaccine has been developed by the Gamalaya National Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology.
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News agency Reuters quoted a Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) official as saying that India may receive the first consignment of the Russian Corona vaccine ‘Sputnik V’ on 1 May. RDIF chief Kirill Dimitric told news agency Reuters that the first dose of Sputnik-V would be delivered on May 1. He said he hoped that this vaccine supply from Russia would help India get out of the second wave of the coronavirus epidemic.
This has been claimed in an interim analysis of data published in ‘The Lancet’ Journal. These results of the study. The fresh ones are based on analysis of data collected from around 20,000 participants.
Two months later, in April, the emergency use of the Russian Corona vaccine ‘Sputnik V’ was approved in India. An expert committee of the Central Medicines Authority of India had recommended approving the emergency use of the Russian Corona vaccine Sputnik V’ with certain conditions in the country on which the Drug Controller of India (DCGI) stamped its seal. The Gamalaya Institute claimed that Sputnik-V is the most effective of all the vaccines developed so far against the corona.
The Russian corona vaccine Sputnik-V is a viral vector vaccine similar to AstraZeneca’s vaccine. But unlike any other corona vaccine, both doses of Sputnik-V vaccine are different from each other.
Different vectors have been used to target spike proteins of SARS-CoV-2 in both doses of Sputnik V. Explain that only SARS-Cove-2 cause’s coronavirus. Even in the nature of the vaccine, two doses of Sputnik V are slightly different versions of the same vaccine and are intended to provide longer protection against corona.
If we talk about the price of this vaccine, the company has said about its price that a dose of Sputnik v in India will cost a maximum of $ 10 (about 750 rupees). However, the official price of the Sputnik vaccine has not been announced. Currently, the central government buys two vaccines in India for 250 rupees. The global reach of the Russian vaccine Sputnik-V could be very high, as more than 60 countries have signed contracts to supply Sputnik-V.
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The consignment of the Sputnik vaccine reaches India on May 1, it can be used in the third phase of vaccination from May 1 itself. From May 1, people over 18 years of age in India will also get vaccinated.
