1st dose to be given as booster to these vaccinated with Sputnik V, NTAGI recommends 

By PTI

NEW DELHI: The first dose of Sputnik V vaccine might be administered because the precaution dose to all these vaccinated with the Russian COVID-19 jab, an NTAGI panel has really helpful, official sources instructed PTI on Saturday.

The two doses of Sputnik V vaccine have separate compositions.

Currently, there isn’t any coverage choice on offering a precaution dose to these inoculated with the Russian vaccine.

The CoWIN portal doesn’t present the choice of precaution dose for Sputnik V.

Many Sputnik V recipients who had taken their second dose means again in July final 12 months are unable to get the booster shot.

The two doses of Sputnik V are administered at a niche of 21-30 days.

The first dose of the vaccine accommodates a recombinant adenovirus kind 26 (rAd26-S) and the second dose a recombinant adenovirus 5 (rAd5-S), an official defined.

“The NTAGI’s Standing Technical Sub-Committee (STSC) which held its meeting on Friday discussed the issue and recommended that Sputnik Light which has the same component of Sputnik V’s first dose will be given as the precaution dose,” an official supply instructed PTI.

The National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (NTAGI) is an advisory committee comprising multidisciplinary consultants accountable for offering data and proposals to authorities for making evidence-based choices concerning vaccine and immunisation coverage.

The Union Health Ministry is learnt to have acquired a number of representations over the precaution dose of Sputnik V.

According to sources, greater than six lakh individuals have acquired the Russian vaccine.