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Sri Lanka approves Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use
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It is unknown when Sri Lanka will be getting the vaccine
After two months during which no community cases were reported, a random test on a factory worker in October led to the detection of a new cluster
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Sri Lanka on Friday approved the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine for Covid-19 amid warnings from doctors that front-line health workers should be quickly inoculated to stop the system from collapsing.
Minister for Pharmaceutical Production and Regulation Channa Jayasumana said the British vaccine has been approved for emergency use, the first in Sri Lanka, while several other candidates are in the pipeline at the National Medicines Regulatory Authority.