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Sputnik Light may become first single-dose Covid-19 vaccine in India
Sputnik Light
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Sputnik Light may become first single-dose Covid-19 vaccine in India

| @indiablooms | 14 May 2021, 06:19 pm

New Delhi/IBNS: Russia's Sputnik Light could be the first single-dose vaccine in India and Dr Reddy's Laboratories is likely to speak to the government and the regulator in June for immediate launch, said an NDTV report.

A single dose vaccine can give a major push to the inoculation efforts of the government when shortages have halted or slowed the drive in many states.

For now, Sputnik V vaccine for Covid-19 will be launched across 35 centres across India next week.

The first dose of the vaccine was administered in Hyderabad today to mark its  soft launch by Dr Reddy's.

The Russian vaccine's imported doses are priced at Rs 994. However, once they are manufactured in India by Dr Reddy's Laboratories, the prices will go down.

With this, the government will have one more vaccine apart from Serum Institute of India's Covishield and Bharat Biotech's Covaxin to conduct the mega vaccination drive.

Sputnik V has shown 91 per cent effectiveness against Covid-19 when taken 21 days apart. Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are the other two which have shown this level of efficacy.


 

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