The first batch of Sputnik V, Russia's Covid 19 vaccine is likely to reach India this week. As per PTI, the vaccine is all set to reach Kanpur's Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Medical College this week. Supportive arrangement are made to store the vaccine doses appropriately since it needs to be stored under a temperature range of -20 degree Celsius to -70 degree Celsius.

Once the vaccine reaches Kanpur, the Phase 2 and 3 human clinical trials are expected to start, for which close to 180 volunteers have registered already. As a start, one dosage of the vaccine will be administered to the volunteers and their conditions will be monitored. The expected duration for monitoring may go up-to somewhere 6-7 months to be able to give a concrete confirmation on the vaccine effectiveness. Dosage are expected to be administered once, twice or thrice with appropriate interval of 21 days during the monitoring period.