The price will be brought down once the vaccine is manufactured in India. Sputnik V will be the third vaccine to be used in India after Serum Institute of India`s Covishield and Bharat Biotech`s Covaxin.
Russia`s Sputnik Light could be the first single-dose vaccine to be used in India and Dr Reddy`s will hold talks with the government and the regulator in June for immediate launch, sources told NDTV today.
For now, the two-dose Sputnik V will be rolled out at 35 centres across India.
The imported vaccine shot will cost ? 995.40 in India, Dr Reddy`s Laboratories, which is manufacturing the vaccine in India, says.
The first dose of the vaccine was administered in Hyderabad today as part of a soft launch by Dr Reddy`s.
The price will be brought down once the vaccine is manufactured in India. Sputnik V will be the third vaccine to be used in India after Serum Institute of India`s Covishield and Bharat Biotech`s Covaxin.
Other than the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, Sputnik V is the only shot to show an effectiveness of over 91 per cent against Covid-19 when taken in two doses, 21 days apart.
The first lot of Sputnik vaccines will be imported from Russia, fully developed and ready to administer.
At a time when the shortage of vaccine shots has slowed down or halted inoculations in many states, a single-dose vaccine could be a game-changer.
Yesterday, the government announced that the gap between two shots of Covishield should be 12 to 16 weeks instead of the previous four to six weeks.
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