"russian-direct-investment-fund-rdif"

The drug firm over the past few weeks has ramped up supply of multiple medicines including Remdesivir to meet the surge in demand.

Dr Reddy's which had received over two lakh vaccines from RDIF, recently soft-launched Sputnik V and tied up with Apollo Hospitals for piloting the vaccine.

India has become the 60th country to approve Sputnik V, RDIF, Russia's sovereign wealth fund, said in a statement.

Four companies developing Covid vaccines in India are based in Hyderabad