Consignment of 3 million doses of Sputnik V vaccine from Russia land in Hyderabad
A consignment of three million doses of Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V landed on the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad on Tuesday. A GMR Hyderabad Air Cargo (GHAC) press launch stated the vaccine consignment arrived from Russia on a specifically chartered freighter RU-9450 which touched down at Hyderabad Airport at 03.43 hours.
“While GHAC has already handled several import shipments of vaccine prior to this, todays shipment of 56.6 tonnes of vaccines is the single largest import shipment of COVID-19 vaccines handled in India till date.This shipment completed all processes and was dispatched in less than 90 minutes,” it stated.
The Sputnik V vaccine requires specialised dealing with and storage, required to be stored at a temperature of -20 C. GHAC has been working carefully with the specialists from the shoppers provide chain group, officers from customs division and different related stakeholders over an prolonged interval of time to make sure that the required infrastructure and dealing with processes are totally in place on the Air Cargo Terminal for easy dealing with of the vaccine shipments, it stated.
Dr Reddy’s Laboratories is in a pact with Russian Direct Investment Fund to promote the primary 125 million individuals doses (250 million vials) of SputnikV in India. Dr Reddy’s Laboratories has acquired approval from the Indian drug regulator for restricted emergency use of SputnikV.
Dr Reddy’s which had earlier acquired over two lakh vaccines from RDIF, just lately soft-launched Sputnik V and tied up with Apollo Hospitals for piloting the vaccine.
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