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India is set to receive COVID vaccine doses "soon" through the US government s global distribution strategy, a State Department official said, however, adding that the number of doses and the timeline are still being worked out.
Coronavirus Live Updates: Serum Institute Gets Nod To Make Sputnik Vaccine Coronavirus Live Updates: India has recorded over 2.85 crore Covid cases so far, according to government data.
Updated: June 05, 2021 12:15 pm IST
Covid-19 Cases in India: The positivity rate in India has been below 10% for 11 days running. (File)
New Delhi:
Adar Poonawalla s Serum Institute of India has got permission from the country s drugs regulator to make Sputnik V, the Russian COVID-19 vaccine. Mr Poonawalla s company will test, analyse and then manufacture the vaccine at its Pune plant, sources have said. The test licence granted to the Serum Institute means it can develop and manufacture the product for testing, but not sell it. The first dose of Sputnik V was administered in Hyderabad on May 14 as part of a soft launch by Dr Reddy s Laboratories.
A 72-year-old man in Maharashtra was inoculated with two different COVID-19 vaccines in a case of mix-up that the authorities are now looking into, alarmed over the lapse whose outcome could be unpredictable.