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Share: 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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