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COVID vaccination can prevent death and reduce severe disease: Prof Asita de Silva

The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce had the privilege of having Professor Asita de Silva, Chairman of the National Medicines Regulatory Authority as the guest speaker at its monthly Committee Meeting recently. According to Professor de Silva, the primary objective of vaccination is to prevent death and to reduce severe disease. Healthcare workers, elderly and those with other co-morbidities are the most vulnerable to contact the illness, which is why these groups receive the highest priority for vaccination.  According to WHO, over the last five weeks, the world has seen a drop in the global numbers in infections and the number of people dying from

Towards global vaccine success

There was good news on the vaccine front on Thursday as the National Medicines Regulatory Authority (NMRA) of Sri Lanka approved the Emergency Use of the Russian ‘Sputnik V’ COVID-19 vaccine. It will now join the country’s other vaccine already in use – the Oxford/AstraZeneca, which has been given to nearly 600,000 persons in just over one month.Sputnik V is a COVID-19 vaccine developed by the Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and.

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