The COVID-19 vaccination drive kicked off in Sri Lanka on Friday, a day after India s gift of 5 lakh doses of Covishield vaccine reached the island nation. The drive began at the Army Hospital in Narahenpita as frontline workers fighting COVID-19 were vaccinated with the Made in India Covishield vaccine. The vaccination drive was formally launched at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases with the participation of State Minister of Primary Health Services, Pandemics and COVID Prevention, Dr Sudarshini Fernandopulle, and India High Commissioner Gopal Baglay. The first vaccine was given to Dr Ananda Wijewickrema, a specialist at the hospital. The hospital staff was then vaccinated, Colombo Page reported.
New Delhi [India], January 28 (ANI): A consignment containing 5,00,000 doses of 'Made in India' coronavirus vaccine reached Colombo, Sri Lanka on Thursday.
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Many Pakistanis do not want to get a COVID-19 vaccine, according to a new survey that came out on Thursday, as authorities announced a roll-out plan from next week.
In the Gallup Pakistan survey, 49 per cent of respondents said they would opt out of the jab, as they considered the coronavirus threat to be exaggerated.
Gallup shared the outcome as the government announced nearly half a million health workers would start getting the first dose of the Sinopharm vaccine from next week.
India to gift 5 lakh doses of Covishield vaccine to Sri Lanka tomorrow ANI | Updated: Jan 27, 2021 22:53 IST
New Delhi [India], January 27 (ANI): A consignment containing 5,00,000 doses of coronavirus vaccines gifted by India will reach Sri Lanka on Tuesday.
This gift of Covid-19 vaccines to Sri Lanka is a part of India s vaccine-maitri >Vaccine Maitri initiative under which India has gifted vaccines to seven other countries in the region.
The consignment, which will be containing 500,000 doses of Covishieldvaccines manufactured by the Serum Institute of India (SII), will reach Colombo.
This comes days after Sri Lanka s drugs regulatory body National Medicines Regulatory Authority (NMRA) gave a go-ahead to Oxford Astrazeneca s vaccine.