A shipment of the Chinese-made Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Sri Lanka as part of a donation by the Chinese government on Thursday. Cambodia also received a new batch of China-donated Sinopharm vaccine after the arrival of the first Chinese vaccine shipment in Feb...
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Sri Lanka: A national level surveySwarnamali, HasinthiFrancis, Tormalli V.Sooriyaarachchi, PiumikaJayawardena, RanilJournal of Health Sciences (Qassim University)
COLOMBO, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lanka's Health Ministry said on Monday it is looking into the possibility of proceeding with legal action against those who do not take booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine. Anver Hamdani, director of Medical Technological Services and ministry coordinator in cha...
People in Sri Lanka will receive their second dose of China's Sinopharm vaccine this month. One million doses purchased from the Chinese company arrived in the country on Sunday, and another million doses were scheduled to arrive today. China has already donated 1.1 million ...
AP reported on May 26 that Sri Lanka has received 500,000 doses of Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine donated…
Inbound travellers who have got two of the approved jabs or one dose of the Janssen vaccine will be considered fully inoculated, the ministry said. Children below the age of 18 who have got one dose of the vaccine will not require a COVID-19 test clearance. However, passengers who were ...
The United Nations has assured Sri Lanka its support in procuring, distributing and administering of the vaccine against COVID-19.
A Sri Lankan school student reacts holding another student as she receives her first COVID-19 vaccine from a health worker in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, Jan. 7, 2022. Sri Lankan health authorities starting to inoculate the children in the age group of 12 to 15 in it's latest effort ...
Sri Lanka has approved the emergency use of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, says Prof. Channa Jayasumana, the State Minister of Production, Supply and Regulation of Pharmaceuticals. Approval for this mRNA-based COVID-19 jab was granted by National Medicines Regulatory Authority (NMRA). ...
China has provided more than 800 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine to the world, most notably to developing countries, many of which have carried out large-scale vaccination campaigns. Zheng Zhongwei, director of the Development Center for Medical Science and Technology of the National Health Com...