INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
gone viral on social media
The unloading of the cold chain from Russia in the factory had a lot of people excited as they have taken videos and circulated it
around.The arrival of vaccine doses means that the trials for the vaccine would soon begin
comment on the viral video.Data on its safety after trials in India will determine whether the vaccine can be given to the Indian population
The trial results are important for India as that will decide its use in the Indian population.So far, the journal Lancet has stated that
the Sputnik V vaccine is effective despite the low number of people on whom it was tried in Russia
The vaccine is being given in phases to Russians and they are being monitored
Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF).The efficacy of the vaccine, developed by the Gamalaya Centre, was demonstrated on the basis of a
first interim analysis obtained 21 days after the first injection.There were no unexpected adverse events during the trials
developers Pfizer and BioNTech, who said their vaccine was more than 90 per cent effective at preventing Covid-19.Eleanor Riley, Professor
of Immunology and Infectious Disease, University of Edinburgh in the UK, said while the results are encouraging, "I worry that these data
Covid-19 in the trial participants, compared to more than 90 cases in the earlier trial
important that the pre-set criteria for unblinding the trial data are adhered to avoid cherry-picking the data," Riley said, adding anything
less than this risks a public loss of trust in all vaccines, which would be a disaster.The Sputnik V vaccine is based on a human adenoviral
vector platform that has proven safe and effective with no long-term side effects in more than 250 clinical trials globally conducted during
