Sputnik V Vaccine to be available in India from next week

While giving a press conference on the condition of coronavirus and vaccination in the country, Dr. VK Paul, Member, NITI Aayog said that ‘about 18 crore doses of Covid vaccine have been applied in India. In the US, this number is around 26 crores. In this way, India is in the third place in terms of number of people vaccinated. After this, the supply will also increase further. Its production will start in July and it is estimated that 15.6 crore doses will be manufactured in that period. Sputnik V vaccine has arrived in India. I am happy to say that we expect it to be available in the market next week. We expect limited supply sales from there (Russia) to begin next week. Not every company has the ability to do this. We extend an open invitation to companies that wish to do so. Companies that want to manufacture Covaxin should do so together. The government will assist so that capacity increases. Dr. Paul has said that people say that the manufacture of Covaxin should be given to other companies. I am happy to say that when we discussed this with them, the Covaxin manufacturing company (Bharat Biotech) welcomed it. The living virus is inactivated under this vaccine and is performed only in BSL3 laboratories.’

Health Ministry’s Joint Secretary Lav Aggarwal said that 83.26 percent of the cases in the country have recovered so far. There are about 37.1 lakh active cases in the country. The recovery rate on May 3 was 81.3 percent, after which recovery has improved. In the last 24 hours, 3,62,727 cases have been reported in the country. There are 12 states in the country where there are more than 1 lakh active cases. The number of active cases remains between 50,000 and 1 lakh in 8 states. There are 16 states where less than 50,000 active cases remain. There are 24 states / territories in the country, where there is a positive rate of more than 15 percent.