Based on the data collected by the Spallanzani Institute and results of previous studies, heterologous boosting with Sputnik Light is the best solution to increase other vaccines’ efficacy and extend the booster protection period, they stated. A study has found that two doses of Sputnik V provide two times higher virus neutralising antibodies against the … Read more
The first order the company has is an export order of 50 million doses of the Sputnik Light vaccine for Covid-19. Stelis Biopharma, the biotech division of Strides Pharma Science, on Tuesday announced that it had commissioned a large-scale fully integrated vaccine manufacturing facility at Bengaluru. It can make 720 million vaccine doses in a … Read more
Wockhardt will manufacture and supply to Enso up to 620 million doses of the Sputnik V vaccine and the Sputnik Light vaccine, Wockhardt said. Pharmaceutical major Wockhardt will be producing Sputnik V vaccines in India. The company said on Friday it has partnered with the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) to produce Sputnik V and … Read more
The Sputnik V vaccine has already received emergency usage authorisation in India. Pharma and biotech company Panacea Biotec said on Thursday that the firm had entered into a licensing and manufacturing agreement with Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and Dr Reddy’s Laboratories to manufacture 25 million doses of Sputnik V vaccine. Panacea signed the agreement … Read more
Talk to patients getting treated for COVID and in fact, a colleague of this writer is currently in a hospital in Delhi coping with COVID and desperately in need of Remdesivir. An utter disregard to pandemic-related safety measures is reaching dangerous proportions in India and almost seems symptomatic of a new devil-may-care attitude where even … Read more
With India ready to import Sputnik V, one cannot discount the fact that it may take several months by the time large volumes from various Sputnik vaccine makers start rolling out in the country. (Reuters Image) By Shilpi Jain India has recently surpassed Brazil as the country with the second-highest number of confirmed Covid-19 cases. … Read more
India is the most populous country to approve Sputnik V. India’s medicine regulator Drugs Controller General of India has cleared Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine for emergency use in the country. Sputnik V, made by Moscow’s Gamaleya National Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, has become the third vaccine after Serum institute of India’s Covishield and Bharat … Read more
NEW DELHI: India and Russia are expected to launch high level contacts in near future and President Vladimir Putin’s trip here for the annual Summit would happen as soon as covid situation stabilises. ”We expect the visit of President Putin to India during this year as soon as the Covid Pandemic situation has been stabilized. … Read more