India
oi-Deepika S
New Delhi, May 14: Russia’s Sputnik Light could be the first single-dose vaccine to be used in India, in what could be game changer for India amid vaccine crisis. Reportedly, Dr Reddy’s expected to hold talks with the government and the regulator in June for immediate launch.
India will examine the claim that a single dose of Russian vaccine ‘Sputnik Light’ can provide protection from the novel coronavirus infection, NITI Aayog member V K Paul had said last Friday.
Sputnik V is a two-dose vaccine taken at a gap of three weeks. The unique feature of it is that the antigens in the first and second dose are different from each other. In other vaccines, both doses are the same.
“In the case of Sputnik Light, they (developers) are saying that the first dose is enough. We are examining this claim. We will go through its data and immunogenicity, and after that we will…