Russian president Vladmir Putin said on Tuesday, India is all set to join the list of nations who are likely to start producing Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine against Covid-19.
The president has also proposed pacing up of creation of vaccine research centres in BRICS nations – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. China is also among the countries expected to take up Sputnik V’s production, Putin said.
Including their feat in the League of Nations which has come up with Covid-19 vaccines, Russia announced in August that it had registered the world’s first coronavirus vaccine, Sputnik V — named after the Soviet-era satellite.
However, the vaccine was registered by Russia ahead of large-scale clinical trials.
Moreover, according to interim trial results, the nation had claimed that its vaccine is 92 per cent effective at protecting people from Covid-19. Results have only come out from a late-stage human trial, following the data released by Pfizer Inc and BioNTech which said their shot was also more than 90 per cent effective.
The nations across the globe have been focusing on the successful vaccines who have been dealt a blow by the coronavirus pandemic resulting in battered economies, unemployment across nations and over-burdened public health systems, in addition to disruption of daily life cycle, experts have raised their doubts about Russia’s vaccine trial, dubbing the design as sparse, making it hard to interpret the data.