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Beijing, January 28
China will donate three lakh COVID-19 vaccine doses to Sri Lanka, stepping up its vaccine diplomacy in South Asia as India rushed its domestically manufactured coronavirus vaccines to several countries in the subcontinent as well as across the globe.
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Thursday thanked India for its generosity after he received five lakh doses of Covishield vaccine gifted by New Delhi under the ‘Neighbourhood First’ policy.
“China will donate three lakh COVID-19 vaccine doses to Sri Lanka to jointly fight the COVID-19 pandemic,” state-run Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday, citing a statement from the Chinese embassy in Colombo.
New Delhi [India], January 28 (ANI): A consignment containing 5,00,000 doses of 'Made in India' coronavirus vaccine reached Colombo, Sri Lanka on Thursday.
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The vaccines are manufactured by the China National Pharmaceutical Group. (Representational)
Beijing:
China will donate three lakh COVID-19 vaccine doses to Sri Lanka, stepping up its vaccine diplomacy in South Asia as India rushed its domestically manufactured coronavirus vaccines to several countries in the subcontinent as well as across the globe.
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Thursday thanked India for its generosity after he received five lakh doses of Covishield vaccine gifted by New Delhi under the Neighbourhood First policy. China will donate three lakh COVID-19 vaccine doses to Sri Lanka to jointly fight the COVID-19 pandemic, state-run Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday, citing a statement from the Chinese embassy in Colombo.
India to gift 5 lakh doses of Covishield vaccine to Sri Lanka tomorrow ANI | Updated: Jan 27, 2021 22:53 IST
New Delhi [India], January 27 (ANI): A consignment containing 5,00,000 doses of coronavirus vaccines gifted by India will reach Sri Lanka on Tuesday.
This gift of Covid-19 vaccines to Sri Lanka is a part of India s vaccine-maitri >Vaccine Maitri initiative under which India has gifted vaccines to seven other countries in the region.
The consignment, which will be containing 500,000 doses of Covishieldvaccines manufactured by the Serum Institute of India (SII), will reach Colombo.
This comes days after Sri Lanka s drugs regulatory body National Medicines Regulatory Authority (NMRA) gave a go-ahead to Oxford Astrazeneca s vaccine.