Another million Sinopharm Vaccine arrives in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka received another one million doses of the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccines yesterday (June 9). A charter flight carrying the consignment of the one million doses of Sinopharm vaccines arrived at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) in Katunayake. Picture by T.K.G. Kapila-Katunayake Corr.

Another One million doses of China’s Sinopharm vaccine has arrived in Sri Lanka this morning, said the State Minister of Production, Supply and Regulation of Pharmaceuticals Prof. Channa Jayasumana.

 

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Another one million doses of Sinopharm air freighted

Ishara Mudugamuwa

Another stock of the China-produced Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccines arrived in Sri Lanka yesterday.

State Minister of Production, Supply and Regulation of Pharmaceuticals Prof. Channa Jayasumana said that a flight carrying one million doses of Sinopharm doses landed at Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) in Katunayake early morning yesterday.

A consignment of one million doses of Sinopharm vaccines also from China arrived on June 06, and after that, the health ministry had taken measures to widen the national vaccination drive covering 12 more districts which includes Matale, Nuwara-Eliya, Kegalle, Trincomalee, Hambantota, Badulla, Anuradhapura, Puttalam, Ampara, Batticaloa, Moneragala and Polonnaruwa.

According to the statistics of the Epidemiology Unit of the Ministry, The first dose of the Sinopharm vaccine has been given to 1,033,028 people after it was rolled out among Sri Lankan nationals on May 08 and the second dose of the same vaccine has been administered to 166.

As per the statistics of the Health Ministry, the country has already received a total of 3.1 million Sinopharm vaccines so far since the arrival of the first batch of 600,000 doses in late March this year.

The National Medicines Regulatory Authority (NMRA) approved the emergency use of the Sinopharm vaccine in the country on March 20 and the WHO has also approved it. Sri Lanka then received a donation of 500,000 doses of the China-manufactured vaccine on May 26.