India will receive the first batch of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 on May 1, the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, Kirill Dmitriev, told Reuters on Monday. He did not say how many vaccines would be in the first batch or where they would be made. “The first doses will be delivered on May 1,” Dmitriev said, adding he hoped Russian supplies would help India navigate its way out of the pandemic in time. Russia's RDIF sovereign wealth fund, which is marketing Sputnik V globally, has already signed agreements with five leading Indian manufacturers for over 850 million doses of the vaccine a year. Also read France to supply India with medical aid to meet COVID-19 crisisThe RDIF has said it expects production of the vaccine in India to reach 50 million doses a month by the summer and to rise further.

Source: dna April 27, 2021 01:41 UTC