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COLOMBO (News 1st): Sri Lanka’s COVID-19 vaccination drive will begin on Friday (Jan. 29), with frontline healthcare workers receiving the jab first, the Ministry of Health said on Thursday (Jan. 28).
A consignment of 500,000 doses of India’s AstraZeneca COVISHIELD vaccine will arrive in Sri Lanka at 11:00 am on Thursday (Jan. 28), the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 Vaccination Plan and National Development said.
Upon receiving the vaccines, the frontline healthcare workers will receive the jab at six main hospitals in and around Colombo, according to Dr. Hemantha Herath, the Deputy Director-General of Health Services.
Thereby, the COVID-19 vaccination drive will begin on Friday (29) at the Colombo National Hospital, Colombo North Teaching Hospital-Ragama, Colombo-South Teaching Hospital, Homagama Base Hospital, Colombo East Base Hospital Mulleriyawa, and the Infectious Disease Hospital in Angoda.
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Colombo (News 1st); Senior Advisor to the President and Head of the Presidential Task Force for Sri Lanka’s COVID-19 vaccination drive Lalith Weeratunga said any citizen is entitled to the right to refuse to be vaccinated.
The President’s Media Division quoting Weeratunga said obtaining the vaccine will be at the discretion of any citizen.
The first consignment of the Indian government-gifted AstraZeneca Covidshield vaccines was officially handed over to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa by High Commissioner of India Dr Gopal Baglay at the Colombo airport on Thursday (28) morning.
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa recently requested the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the vaccines to be used in Sri Lanka.