India on Sunday received the second consignment of Sputnik V, the Russian vaccine that recently joined the country’s arsenal against COVID-19.
“Second batch of Sputnik V arrives in Hyderabad, India!,” the vaccine developers tweeted.
Russia’s Ambassador to India Nikolay Kudashev said in a tweet: “given the recent launch of the Russian vaccine in the Indian vaccination campaign, this second delivery has become very timely.” Describing Sputnik V as a Russian-Indian vaccine, he told news agency ANI “we expect that its production in India will be gradually increased up to 850 million doses per year... There are plans to introduce single-dose vaccine soon in India-Sputnik Lite.”
