Kauvery Hospital, Chennai, has announced the administration of Sputnik V Vaccine.
Sputnik-V, the 3rd vaccine to be introduced in India after Covishield and Covaxin, is now available to the Indian public.
The time interval between the two doses of Sputnik V is three weeks.
It has been established evidentially that Sputnik Covid vaccine is safe and effective.
The vaccine is now in use in nearly 70 nations. India plans to also manufacture and release at least 850 million doses, to help speed up the vaccination of its population.
Sputnik V is an adenovirus vaccine, which uses an engineered adenovirus as a delivery mechanism for inserting the genetic code for the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein into human cells.