Sri Lanka receives 728,460 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine from the COVAX
Right here is the third consignment of Covid vaccines purchased by Sri Lanka below the COVAX Facility
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Glorious Updated at August 1, 2021 09: 37 IST
AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine
Sri Lanka purchased 728,460 doses of AstraZeneca from the COVAX program on Saturday.
The consignment changed into flown as fragment of the total contribution of more than 1.4 million doses supplied by Japan via the COVAX’s dose sharing, talked about UNICEF in a press open.
The Health Ministry says fragment of the doses will be outmoded to give the 2nd doses.
Right here is the third consignment of COVID vaccines purchased by Sri Lanka below the COVAX Facility. The major shipping changed into 264,000 doses of AstraZeneca in March, followed by 1.5 million Moderna vaccines in July.
The nation has been going via a lack more than 500,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine after the producer in the neighbouring India didn’t raise the promised photography attributable to the surge of the virus in India.
Sri Lanka has registered 306,662 cases and 4,380 deaths.
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First Printed: Solar, August 01 2021. 09: 37 IST