Pakistan received its first privately imported batch of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine in Karachi on Wednesday night. The shipment consists of 50,000 doses and will be distributed to key hospitals and health facilities in the country.
Russia’s state-owned Sputnik-V company filed an application with DRAP in January, seeking permission for emergency use of its vaccine in Pakistan, which Pakistan approved shortly.
“The country’s technical committee has cleared and recommended the vaccine to the drug registration board,” Akhtar Abbas Khan, spokesperson for the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) had said then.
The vaccine has also been approved for usage in Hungary, Algeria, Bolivia, Serbia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), among other countries. Its efficacy rate is 92%.
