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Sputnik V: Russia's vaccine is going global – how well does it work?

By Graham Lawton

20 April 2021

A Palestinian health worker prepares a dose of the Sputnik V covid-19 vaccine at a clinic in the Gaza Strip

A Palestinian health worker prepares a dose of the Sputnik V covid-19 vaccine at a clinic in the Gaza Strip

Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images

It styles itself as “a vaccine for all mankind”, and with some justification. Last week, the , developed by the Gamaleya National Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology in Russia, was , a country of around 1.4 billion people. India is the 60th nation to approve the vaccine, meaning it is now available to a combined population of 3 billion, or 40 per cent of everyone on the planet.

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