Russia's Covid-19 vaccine Sputnik V is first foreign vaccine to be approved in India after the approval of Serum's Covishield and Bharat Biotech's Covaxin. With this,...
Sputnik V was developed by the Moscow-based Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology and was registered on August 11, 2020, by the Russian Ministry of...
Sputnik V has been approved to be imported from Russia, but is yet to be widely available in the country. The company had said the imported...
Indian regulators had granted regulatory approval or restricted use authorisation to Sputnik V on April 12. Sputnik V has an efficacy rate of 91.6 per cent....
Initially, India had received the rights for the distribution of the first 100 million doses in India but later, it was enhanced to 125 million.
Sputnik V is the only Covid vaccine other than those of Pfizer and Moderna to show an effectiveness of over 91% against Covid-19 when taken in...
Indian Ambassador to Russia, Bala Venkatesh Varma has confirmed that the first batch of Russia's Covid-19 vaccine Sputnik V will be delivered to India within the...