A Sri Lankan Airlines Flight had brought 728,460 doses of Oxford -Astraseneca "Covishield " vaccine Japanese Government had donated to Sri Lanka under the "Covax " facility of the World Health Organization ,
This stock is being scheduled to be used to vaccinate little more than 540,000 persons who had already received the first dose of "Covishield " vaccine and the rest of the stock is scheduled to be sent to a Anti Corona vaccination programme in Kegalle Health authorities had been revealed ,This is the largest consignment of Corona vaccine doses received to Sri lanka under the " Covax " faculty so far according to the WHO office in Colombo ,
Japan is scheduled to be donated a total of 1.45 million doses of "Covishield " " Vaccine to Sri Lanka under "Covax " facility and the rest of the stock is due to arrive in Sri Lanka on 07 th of August according to Health Authorities .
Meanwhile stocks received to Sri lanka from "Pfizer " ,Moderna and "Sputnik " vaccines had been sent to Central Province and Mannar recently without distributing them to MOH Offices in Western Province it has been reported ,At present all the MOH offices and vaccine centers are giving Chinese vaccine "Sinopharam " and many had refused to take it according to reports ,
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