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COLOMBO (News 1st): A consignment of 500,000 doses of the AstraZeneca COVISHIELD Vaccines ordered by the government are expected to arrive in the country within this month, the State Pharmaceuticals Corporation of Sri Lanka (SPC) said.
The vaccine manufacturing company has agreed to provide the remaining 500,000 doses by next month, Dinusha Dassanayake, the General Manager at the State Pharmaceuticals Corporation of Sri Lanka told News 1st on Wednesday (Mar. 10).
As of now, 1.5 million doses of the AstraZeneca COVISHIELD Vaccines have been ordered from Serum Institute India; of that, 500,000 doses were already received.
Furthermore, 264,000 AztraZeneca Vaccines were provided to Sri Lanka under the COVAX Facility of the World Health Organisation.
Serum Institute will not delay COVISHIELD vaccine to Sri Lanka
Serum Institute will not delay COVISHIELD vaccine to Sri Lanka
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Colombo (News 1st); The Serum Institute of India says the 01 million doses of the COVISHIELD vaccine ordered by Sri Lanka will be delivered to the island nation, without any delay.
State Pharmaceuticals Corporation of Sri Lanka confirmed this to News 1st on Monday (08).
The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is being manufactured locally in India by the Serum Institute of India, and in February Sri Lanka imported 500,000 doses of the vaccine.
Sri Lanka made a payment for 1.5 million doses of the COVISHIELD vaccine at $ 5.25 per dose and the remaining 01 million doses is expected to reach Sri Lanka in March or April.
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