Sri Lanka has boosted the national inoculation drive with 10,172,800 COVID-19 vaccines received since arrivals of the first consignment in January this year, says the State Minister of Production, Supply and Regulation of Pharmaceuticals. As per the Epidemiology Unit’s progress reports on COVID immunization, more than 7.57 million vaccinations have been rolled out across the island so far. Sri Lanka has also received China’s 7.1 million Sinopharm vaccines, Russia-made 180,000 Sputnik V jabs, 128,700 Pfizer-BioNTech and 1.5 million Moderna shots from the United States. More than 3.3 million of these vaccines were delivered as donations, the state minister said adding that over 6.8 million were purchased by the government, the state minister added. The country is also expecting a donation of 1.47 million AstraZeneca shots from Japan and 5.6 million more Sinopharm vaccines from China.

Source: The Nation July 20, 2021 08:03 UTC