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Sri Lanka receives 2 million doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines

Sri Lanka s Health Ministry on Sunday received 2 million doses of Sinopharm vaccines from China, leading to a total of 7.1 million Sinopharm doses arriving in the country since March. The vaccines arrived onboard two Sri Lankan Airlines flights which arrived at the Bandaranaike International Airport early Sunday morning, the Xinhua news agency reported. According to health officials, from these stocks, 100,000 doses each will be dispatched into Galle, Matara, Hambantota, Anuradhapura, Nuwara Eliya, Ratnapura, Badulla, and Matale Districts, while 200,000 doses each will be dispatched to Colombo and Kurunegala Districts. Meanwhile, 300,000 and 500,000 doses will be dispatched to Kalutara and Gampaha Districts respectively. According to official statistics from the Health Ministry, nearly 3 million people have received the Sinopharm vaccines in Sri Lanka to date, making it the leading vaccine to be administered among the general public.

Bumper turmeric harvest at Kuruegala Plantations

By Randima Attygalle Reputed for its core coconut plantation business yielding around 15 million nuts per year, Kurunegala Plantations Limited (KPL), a fully owned government company, is also well known for its intercrops. Currently operating under the Coconut, Kithul and Palmyrah Cultivation Promotion and Related Industrial Product Manufacturing & Export Diversification Ministry, KPL recently gathered a bumper harvest of turmeric, earning a profit of LKR 11 million. Turmeric is KPL’s latest commercial inter-crop joining pepper, cinnamon, cocoa, mango, dragon fruit, guava, mangosteen, cashew and rambutan. The success of turmeric is encouraging, especially in the aftermath of government’s import ban, says KPL CEO S.M.M. Samarakoon.

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