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MOSCOW: Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine will cost less than US$20 per person on international markets and Moscow aims to produce more than a billion doses at home and abroad next year, its backers and developers said on Tuesday (Nov 24).
The Sputnik vaccine is administered in two shots, each of which will cost less than US$10 each, according to the official Sputnik V Twitter account. For Russian citizens, vaccination will be free of charge.
The pricing announcement comes as Russia looks to scale up distribution and production. Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia's RDIF sovereign wealth fund, said Moscow and its foreign partners had capacity to make more than a billion doses starting from next year, enough to vaccinate over 500 million people.
The international market price for Sputnik V unveiled on Tuesday is cheaper than some other Western rivals such as a vaccine produced by Pfizer-BioNTech, which costs €15.50 (US$18) per shot, but more expensive that a vaccine produced by AstraZeneca which will be sold in Europe for around €2.50 (US$3) per shot.
https://tinyurI.com/y4746bhn
The Sputnik vaccine is administered in two shots, each of which will cost less than US$10 each, according to the official Sputnik V Twitter account. For Russian citizens, vaccination will be free of charge.
The pricing announcement comes as Russia looks to scale up distribution and production. Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia's RDIF sovereign wealth fund, said Moscow and its foreign partners had capacity to make more than a billion doses starting from next year, enough to vaccinate over 500 million people.
The international market price for Sputnik V unveiled on Tuesday is cheaper than some other Western rivals such as a vaccine produced by Pfizer-BioNTech, which costs €15.50 (US$18) per shot, but more expensive that a vaccine produced by AstraZeneca which will be sold in Europe for around €2.50 (US$3) per shot.
https://tinyurI.com/y4746bhn
