As Indian firms prepare to manufacture Russian-made Sputnik V anti-COVID vaccine to meet the staggering demand in the nation, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday mentioned Russia is the solely nation in the world which is prepared to switch expertise and to broaden manufacturing overseas, and famous that the vaccine was being bought in 66 international locations.
The remarks by the Russian president got here a day after the officers in New Delhi mentioned that Serum Institute of India has obtained a preliminary approval from the nation’s drug regulator for manufacturing of Sputnik V. Already Indian pharma firm, Dr Reddy’s Laboratories, in April, 2021 obtained the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the Russian vaccine. Also Panacea Biotec in collaboration with Russian sovereign wealth fund RDIF has begun the manufacturing of Sputnik V vaccine in India.
Rejecting allegations over Sputnik V vaccine’s efficacy, the Russian president throughout a digital interplay with senior editors of main worldwide information companies, together with the Press Trust of India, the Associated Press and Reuters, mentioned that the delay in getting the vaccine registered in Europe was due to a “aggressive wrestle” and “commercial interests” there. With China being blamed by some international locations, particularly the US, for the COVID pandemic, Putin mentioned an excessive amount of has been mentioned about the topic, and emphasised that the disaster shouldn’t be “politicised”.
He was replying to a question on the cause of the COVID pandemic. Last week, US President Joe Biden announced that he had ordered further intelligence investigation into the origins of COVID-19 amidst allegations that coronavirus originated from a laboratory in China’s Wuhan city with former US president Donal Trump calling for imposing a fine on the Asian country for the “death and destruction” it has brought about. “Too many issues have already been mentioned on this topic, so it appears to me that making extra feedback about this is able to be pointless. I don’t assume that I can say one thing new or intriguing,” Putin said through a translator.
Noting that there was a competitive struggle against Sputnik V, Putin said, “in 66 countries, we are selling our vaccine, it is a huge market for us. I am pretty sure the allegations are due to commercial reasons but we are following humanitarian reasons.” He additional asserted that “it is recognised by worldwide specialists, the vaccine is environment friendly, its efficacy is 97.6 per cent. We are the solely nation in the world who is prepared to switch expertise and is prepared to broaden our manufacturing overseas.” Putin also expressed hope that challenges created by the novel coronavirus pandemic would spur countries to remove politically motivated restrictions against each other.
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