Sri Lanka to begin adninisrring Booster dose (Third diose ) of the Corona vaccine for those who had received the second dose of Corona vaccine six months back according to Director General Of Health Derviced (DGHS) Dr Asela Ginawardane .
Accordingly Pfizer vaccine will be used for the Booster vaccine dose and under the first phase the Booster dose will be given to frontline health care workers and members of the TRI forces Dr Gunswardane has stated .
Under the second phase the Booster vaccine dose will be given to the employees in Harbour ,Airlines and tourism sectors followed by over 60 year old citizens it has been revealed .
Thereafter those over 30 years old with complications will be given the booster dose followed by all over 20 years old DGHS has announcec .
According to the Medical specialists when administering Booster vaccine dose priotity should be given to those over 60 years of age .
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