Wockhardt gets CDSCO approval to export Russian COVID vaccine Sputnik

The state-of-the-art automated manufacturing facilities in Aurangabad are dedicated to producing world-class high-quality injectable products, the company said. Wockhardt said it had entered into an agreement with the Russian Direct Investment Fund and Enso Healthcare to manufacture and supply Sputnik V and Sputnik Light vaccines against COVID-19 based on the technology transfer from Gamaleya National Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology. On Sunday, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya had announced that the Drugs Controller General of India has granted emergency use permission to single-dose Sputnik Light COVID vaccine in the country.

Last year in April, India's regulator had granted permission for restricted emergency use of the Russian COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V with certain conditions.