Minister of Mass Media and Government Spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella said that the Government has the funds required to obtain the COVID-19 vaccines and the problem at present was that global vaccine production was not able to meet the existing demand.
He said that 193 countries are currently trying to obtain the required number of vaccines while 51 of these countries have not yet received even a single vaccine dose.
Minister Rambukwella was speaking to the media after a meeting on COVID control measures held at the Central Provincial Governor’s Office yesterday (21).
The Minister said that some people were trying to scuttle the Government’s COVID control efforts through false propaganda and appealed to the people not to get misled.He said that 50,000 Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine doses would be delivered to Sri Lanka this week, followed by another one million doses in the first week of next month.“At present, the Kandy district is a high risk area for the pandemic,” he said, adding that the COVID vaccination programme will start in Kandy shortly.
