New Delhi: The much-awaited first consignment of Sputnik V vaccine landed at GMR Hyderabad Air Cargo on Saturday (May 1) as forces unite to battle the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic in India.
Last month, the Drug Controller General (DCGI) had issued permission for Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories to import the Russian vaccine to India for emergency use. The rollout of the Russian vaccine is anticipated to enhance India’s third section of the vaccination drive which commenced immediately amid a file rise in COVID-19 instances.
India for the primary time has reported greater than 4 lakh new COVID-19 instances in the final 24 hours. A complete of 4,01,993 recent COVID-19 instances have been recorded in the final 24 hours taking the cumulative depend of the instances to 1,91,64,969, the Union Health Ministry reported on Saturday.
“First batch of SputnikV vaccine arrives in #Hyderabad, India! That’s the same day the country starts mass COVID vaccination drive covering its entire adult population. Let’s jointly defeat this pandemic. Together we are stronger”: Sputnik V pic.twitter.com/NCFbPpaWvA
— ANI (@ANI) May 1, 2021
Sputnik V is the third vaccine India has given the go-ahead to after ‘Covishield’, developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca and ‘Covaxin’, the indigenous vaccine manufactured by Bharat Biotech. Covishield is manufactured by the Serum Institute of India.
Earlier, the Indian envoy to Russia Bala Venkatesh Varma had stated that India expects between 150,000 to 200,000 ready-made vaccines to be accessible in a short time in the early a part of May.
Diplomatic sources had instructed ANI that India will get a substantive variety of vaccines in the primary tranche and the provision will proceed in installments. India is anticipating 5 million vials of Sputnik vaccines by the subsequent month.
