THE India, faced lately with the worst outbreak of the young pandemic coronavirus on the planet, will receive a first batch of doses of the Russian vaccine Sputnik V for COVID-19 the Saturday, May 1stThe head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), Kirill Dmitriev, told the Reuters news agency on Monday.
The head of RDIF did not specify, as broadcast by AMPE, how many doses will be contained in this first batch or where they will be manufactured.
India, in the grip of the stormy second wave of the new coronavirus pandemic, is finding it difficult to reduce SARS-CoV-2 infections, which world record behind the other. The country’s hospitals have been flooded and governments in several countries, including Britain, the United States and Germany, have announced in recent days that they are sending material aid.
“The first installments will be delivered on May 1”, Mr Dmitriev said he hoped they would help the Asian country take a step towards overcoming the health crisis it is facing.
RDIF has already signed agreements with five Indian pharmaceutical industries to produce 850 million doses of RDIF annually. The Fund expects production to reach 50 million doses on a monthly basis in the summer in India and then increase further.
In the meantime, however, the country of 1.3 billion souls remains immersed in chaos, with patients succumbing to their saturated hospitals because lack of oxygen. Yesterday India broke it for another day world infection record by SARS-CoV-2, recording 352,991 infections, and recorded new national record 2,812 deaths. The country mourns the fourth heaviest pandemic in the world, with over 192,000 dead.
In New Delhi, citizens describe hospital corridors suffocatingly full of beds and stretchers and families begging in vain for oxygen to be delivered to their own people. Patients die at the gates of hospitals. Restrictive measures are imposed in the capital for at least another week.
The director general of the World Health Organization, Tentros Antanom Gebreses, described the situation in India yesterday as “more than heartbreaking”.
“WHO does what he can” to help, he continued, “providing material and necessary equipment” in the country, in particular devices for delivering oxygen to patients, pre-campaign hospitals, laboratory equipment, while he has developed there “more than 2,600 members of his staff”.
In the meantime there are still questions about the selected “Indian» variation of SARS-CoV-2. WHO notes that it is not yet able to know whether “increased mortality” is due to the fact that the Indian variant causes a “more severe” form of COVID-19, due to the “depletion of the health system” due to the rapid increase in the number of cases , or “in both”.
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