Sri Lanka thanks India for sending coronavirus vaccine
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Last Updated: Jan 26, 2021, 04:14 PM IST
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Sri Lanka will become the eighth country to which India is gifting COVID-19 vaccines since it began its country-wide mega immunisation programme on January 16.
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COLOMBO:Sri Lanka on Tuesday expressed appreciation and gratitude to India for sending 500,000 doses of coronavirus vaccine to the island country. Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa told the Cabinet that the Indian High Commissioner in Colombo informed that India would be sending 500,000 vaccines to Sri Lanka and they will arrive here on January 28. The Cabinet of Ministers decided to express the appreciation and gratitude of the Sri Lankan government in this regard, a Cabinet note said.
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