Sri Lanka rolls out Russia's Sputnik V vaccine
The Hindu
Meanwhile, the island’s new infections rose to an all time high for the third day running yesterday.
Sri Lanka on Thursday started administering Sputnik V vaccine after it received the first batch of 15,000 doses of the Russian jab, an health official said. Dr Sudarshani Fernandopulle, minister for prevention, said a particularly vulnerable Colombo north suburb had been chosen to use the Sputnik vaccine. Sri Lanka received a consignment of 15,000 Russian vaccines early this week out of an order for 13 million of Sputnik doses. Already 9,25,000 of the 21 million population had received the vaccine, Oxford AstraZeneca from India.
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