HYDERABAD: Sputnik V vaccine has been formally launched in Hyderabad on Monday by Dr Reddy’s Laboratories (DRL) in collaboration with Apollo Hospitals. Thirty staff members of Dr Reddy’s were administered the vaccine on the occasion.
DRL has imported 1.5 lakh doses of Sputnik V for its soft launch, the first phase of it being in Hyderabad. Five thousand staff and families of DRL are to be administered the vaccine by Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad.
While the first dose has been given in Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad, the same will be extended to Visakhapatnam and thereafter to group hospitals in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Kolkata and Pune.
The first and second doses of Sputnik V are distinctly different. The gap between two doses of Sputnik V is 21 days. Apollo Hospitals said the cost of vaccination is Rs 1,200 and Rs 1,250.
DRL (Branded Markets) chief executive officer M. V. Ramana says, “We have got stocks of both the doses and will scale up…