'Ready to start deliveries': Russia's COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V to be produced in India

After Russia anunced that its COVID-19 vaccine, Sputnik V is up to 95% efficient against disease, it has also said that global supplies of doses will be produced in India among or nations. To match total requests of 1.2 billion doses of Sputnik V vaccine that have come from more than 50 nations, international partners of Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) including India, Brazil, China, South Korea and or countries will be producing same.

world’s first registered COVID-19 vaccine has anunced its efficacy to be 91.4% based on interim analysis of data gleaned from 28 days of st-3 clinical trial involving 40,000 people in Russia. Moreover, preliminary data obtained by volunteers 42 days after first dose that corresponding with 21 days after second dose indicates that efficacy of vaccine above 95%. 

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efficacy of  two-dose vaccine, Sputnik V produced at Gamaleya Institute in Moscow is even more groundbreaking as it would be introduced in international markets at a price of less than $10. refore, it would be two or more times cheaper than mRNA vaccines by or drugmakers that have also shown a similar level of efficacies. Moreover, it will be free of cost of Russian citizens. 

After Pfizer-BioNTech declared its vaccine to be 95% effective and Moderna’s vaccine's efficacy was determined to be 94.5% in early trials, Russia’s Sputnik V anuncement on vember 24 also came hot on heels of Oxford University-AstraZeneca vaccine's overall efficacy being pegged at 70.4%. 

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Russia hails efficacy as ‘most important tool’

After facing criticism initially for racing through medical research for sake of gaining an upper hand amid global competition, Russian government hailed vember 24 anuncement as “most important tool” in fight against COVID-19 pandemic. Russia’s health minister Mikhail Murashko said that “ data demonstrating high efficacy of Sputnik V vaccine gives us hope that we will soon obtain most important tool in fight against pandemic of vel coronavirus infection.”

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