{"id":107701,"date":"2020-10-17T16:05:19","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T23:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=107701"},"modified":"2020-10-17T16:05:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T23:05:19","slug":"india-gives-go-ahead-to-domestic-trial-of-russias-pioneering-sputnik-v-covid-19-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/10\/17\/india-gives-go-ahead-to-domestic-trial-of-russias-pioneering-sputnik-v-covid-19-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"India gives go-ahead to domestic trial of Russia\u2019s pioneering \u2018Sputnik V\u2019 Covid-19 vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy RT<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>\n\nIndia\u2019s vaccines regulator has given the green light for a clinical study of the Russia-developed Covid-19 vaccine. Similar trials of the formulation are underway in Russia itself and in some other nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI), a department in India\u2019s drug regulator that is responsible for licensing vaccines, has given its approval for a domestic clinical study of the Russian candidate vaccine dubbed Sputnik V,\u201d Indian and Russian partners have announced in a joint statement. The&nbsp;<em>multi-center and randomized controlled study\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;will be conducted by Dr Reddy\u2019s Laboratories, a Hyderabad-based pharmaceutical giant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In September, Dr Reddy\u2019s signed a partnership agreement with the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), which funded the development of the drug. After Sputnik V is cleared for Indian customers, RDIF will supply 100 million doses of the vaccine, according to the deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Russian partner also pledged to supply data from the clinical trial of Sputnik V conducted in Russia, saying it will help&nbsp;<em>further strengthen the clinical development\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;of the vaccine in India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Russia registered the new vaccine in August, before a large-scale Phase-3 clinical trial was conducted. The developer managed to convince the Russian drug licensing agency that its product, which is based on a time-tested platform, was safe to use. A proper efficacy study, involving 40,000 volunteers, is currently coming to an end in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The novel drug was also supplied to several other countries, including Belarus, Venezuela and the UAE, where separate Phase-3 trials of the Russian vaccine are underway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy RT India\u2019s vaccines regulator has given the green light for a clinical study of the Russia-developed Covid-19 vaccine. Similar trials of the formulation are underway in Russia itself and in some other nations. The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI), a department in India\u2019s drug regulator that is responsible for licensing vaccines, has given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}